Status of Knowledge in Spanish-Speaking Latin America (From Politiques de Prevention de la Delinquance. A l'Aune de la Recherche, P 57-80, 1991, Philippe Robert, ed. See NCJ- 137844)

• NCJ Number: 137848
• Author(s): L Anyar de Castro
• Date Published: 1991
• Length: 24 pages
• Sale Source: Editions L'Harmattan
• Publication Type: Presentation
• Language: French
• Country: France

Annotation

This survey examines research organizations and individual books on crime prevention in Latin America.

Abstract

Latin America has only few organizations dedicated to criminological research: the departments of justice of some countries, university research (especially in Venezuela, Mexico, and Colombia), the Latin American Institute of the United Nations for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Delinquency (ILANUD), and most importantly, the Latin American Group for Comparative Criminology. The author divides preventive research in Latin America into five main categories: prevention of juvenile delinquency, insecurity and the media, prevention and treatment of delinquency, community-based prevention, and responses to recidivism. In each category, a brief analysis of the main directions of research is presented; then the content and conclusions of the most important research works are examined one by one. Three pages of bibliographical references are appended.