Bulletin #5 Collective Violence in Latin America: A Critical Look

CLACSO Working Group on Vigilantism, Collective Violence and Security Governance
Bulletin: Collective Violence in Latin America. A Critical Look.
Year 3 – Number #5 Contemporary readings on violence, crime and state responses
December 2024

CONTENTS

1. Introduction. What Are We Reading?
   Violet Dickenstein
   
   REVIEWS
   
2. Resisting Extortion. Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America by Eduardo Moncada
   José Alberto González Zempoalteca
3. Violence, poverty and pandemic. Review of Last and Dented. Violence and Vulnerabilities in San Martín, by Evangelina Caravaca, José Garriga Zucal and Inés Mancini (Compilers)
   Leandro Gamallo
4. The business of crime: The growth of crime, illegal markets, and violence in Latin America by Marcelo Bergman
   José Garriga Zucal
5. Fleeing from justice: Alice Goffman's fugitive life in an American city
   Evangelina Caravaca
6. Disarming the petty thief. Detours around urban youth transgressions by Esteban Rodríguez Alzueta
   Mariana Cecilia Fernández
7. Youth, responsibility and punishment: alternatives to deprivation of liberty in Argentina by Mariana Fernández
   Rocío Baquero