Nombre del libro

• The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment

editorial

• Wiley

Resumen

• During the 1990s, Colombia was considered one of the most violent countries in the world. Banditry, communist guerrilla groups, right-wing paramilitaries, drug cartels together with a sophisticated and versatile organized crime drew a violent landscape of murder. Although national homicide rate has fallen from 1995, Colombia remains a violent country. Scholars have tried to identify the causes of this entrenched and inveterate violence, without finding a definite answer. Practitioners have proposed few citizen security programs, often withering away and erratic, showing that there is no real policy with a strong leadership remaining. In contrast, the Colombian police force has played a pivotal role in dismantling numbers of delinquency networks and contributing to crime reduction.

autores

• http://vivoweb.org/ontology/core#FacultyMember
  Ruiz Vásquez, Juan Carlos

fecha de publicación

• 2015-1-1

Área temática

• Paz, justicia e instituciones sólidas