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New Avenues in the Study of Crime, Violence, and State in Latin America

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Marcelo Bergman and Gustavo Fondevila, Prisons and Crime in Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Figures, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, 261 pp.; hardcover $99.99, paperback $34.99, ebook $28.

James H. Creechan, Drug Wars and Covert Netherworlds: The Transformations of Mexico’s Narco Cartels. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021. Figures, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index, 392 pp; hardcover $100, paperback $35, ebook $35.

Yanilda María González, Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 250 pp.; paperback $34.99, hardcover $99.99, ebook $28.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2023

Mart Trasberg*
Affiliation:
Mart Trasberg is an assistant professor of international relations and comparative politics at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City, Mexico. mart.trasberg@tec.mx.

Abstract

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Critical Debates
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the University of Miami

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Footnotes

Conflict of interest: I declare none.

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