Understanding High Crime Rates in Latin America: The Role of Social and Policy Factors

By Rodrigo R. Soares, Joana Naritomi. 2010

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2. Laura Chioda
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4. Rodrigo R. Soares
5. Pablo Fajnzylber

Citations in the corpus

• Inequality and crime revisited: effects of local inequality and economic segregation on crime (2015, background): “…that across-neighborhood 20The prediction that ineffective police force further reinforces the effect of inequality on crime may be particularly relevant for Latin American countries, some of which are known for their high economic inequality and high crime rates (Soares and Naritomi 2010).”
• Spillovers from Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Bolsa Família and Crime in Urban Brazil (2016, background): “Various authors have documented a robust correlation between inequality and crime (see, for example, Fajnzylber et al, 2002, Bourguignon et al, 2003, Soares, 2004, or the discussion in Soares and Naritomi, 2010).”