Crime, citizenship and race: Latin American dilemmas in security doctrine

The Race to Punish in American Schools: Class and Race Predictors of Punitive School-Crime Control

Despite the general agreement that US schools have become increasingly punitive since the 1980s, researchers are uncertain about what types of schools use toughon-crime measures. Some assert that punitive control is concentrated in poor, predominantly ethnic minority schools. Governing-through-crime scholars argue that US schools with mostly middle-class and white students are also punitive, bu...

Poverty, race and crime.

Crime, race, and reproduction.

Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship Part of the African American Studies Commons, Bioethics and Medical Ethics Commons, Biological Engineering Commons, Criminology Commons, Criminology and Criminal Justice Commons, Genetics Commons, Health Policy Commons, Human Rights Law Commons, Law and Race Commons, Population Biology Commons, Public Poli...

Race in Latin America

category to understand human biological diversity. Humans vary to some extent in their DNA and their outward physical appearance or phenotype, but this diversity cannot be organized into “racial groups” or “races,” even if some genetic and phenotypical variation seems to correlate very broadly with continental geography. Humans are too similar genetically and intracontinental genetic variation ...

Violence and Crime in Latin America

In analyzing the situation, it is clear that most crime and violence is local in scope, affecting primarily the direct victim and local community. However, there is also a global dimension to the causes and, potentially, the solutions. For example, in the case of Latin America, the demand for illegal drugs in the USA and Europe has a clear impact on drug supply and organized crime in a number o...