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What happens next can lessen the damage or compound it.
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
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Reducing Violence and Improving the Rule of Law: Organized Crime, Marginalized Communities, and the Political Machine
This literature review seeks to highlight specific policy interventions against risk factors that predispose comm- unities towards gangs, organized crime, and electoral violence; and interventions that attack each of those types of violence directly.
Published on Sep 24, 2014
Source: World Justice Project and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
This literature review seeks to highlight specific policy interventions against risk factors that predispose communities towards gangs, organized crime, and electoral violence; and interventions that attack each of those types of violence directly. This is by no means a comprehensive report, given the extensive scholarship that has been dedicated to these three issues. It is, however, a starting point from which we can begin to explore the success or failure of policy interventions, and the contexts in which they have been found to work or fail. We hope to add to this review before and following the workshop, with the help of workshop participants.
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