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More Money, More Crime: Prosperity and Rising Crime in Latin America Kindle Edition

by Marcelo Bergman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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While worldwide crime is declining overall, criminality in Latin America has reached unprecedented levels that have ushered in social unrest and political turmoil. Despite major political and economic gains, crime has increased in every Latin American country over the past 25 years, currently making this region the most crime-ridden and violent in the world.

Over the past two decades, Latin America has enjoyed economic growth, poverty and inequality reduction, rising consumer demand, and spreading democracy, but it also endured a dramatic outbreak of violence and property crimes. In More Money, More Crime, Marcelo Bergman argues that prosperity enhanced demand for stolen and illicit goods supplied by illegal rackets. Crime surged as weak states and outdated criminal justice systems could not meet the challenge posed by new profitably criminal enterprises. Based on large-scale data sets, including surveys from inmates and victims, Bergman analyzes the development of crime as a business in the region, and the inability-and at times complicity-of state agencies and officers to successfully contain it. While organized crime has grown, Latin American governments have lacked the social vision to promote sustainable upward mobility, and have failed to improve the technical capacities of law enforcement agencies to deter criminality. The weak state responses have only further entrenched the influence of criminal groups making them all the more difficult to dismantle.

More Money, More Crime is a sobering study that foresees a continued rise in violence while prosperity increases unless governments develop appropriate responses to crime and promote genuine social inclusion.
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  1. ISBN-13
    978-0190608774
  2. Publisher
    Oxford University Press
  3. Publication date
    May 7, 2018
  4. Language
    English
  5. File size
    3.0 MB
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"More money, more crime is a significant contribution to understanding crime in Latin America and is a must read for any scholar interested in understanding crime and crime prevention in the region or more generally in comparative and cross-cultural criminology ... what is clear is that given the theoretical and methodological rigor of this book, it will become an unavoidable reference for anyone interested in crime and violence in Latin America." -- Nicolas Tratjenberg, International Criminology

"This book is now an unavoidable reference for those interested in unravelling the paradoxical coexistence of economic growth, democratization, and increasing crime." -- Javier Auyero, UT Austin, American Journal of Sociology

"In More Money, More Crime Bergman provides an important and illuminating sociological account of crime in Latin American that makes a critical contribution not just to the criminology of the region but global criminological debates." -Enrique Desmond Arias, Marxe Chair of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Baruch College, City University of New York

"This innovative study of crime and violence in Latin America provides an authoritative synthesis of available evidence together with a sophisticated region-wide explanatory model. Rising prosperity has generated new market incentives for criminality, but trigger conditions are also needed. Bergman therefore constructs a theoretical account of transition from low to high criminal equilibrium which also explains its near irreversibility" -Laurence Whitehead, Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University

"This book, by one of the leading criminologists in Latin America, Marcelo Bergman, is a huge achievement. Based on a wealth of new data and an innovative theoretical framework, it challenges conventional views about crime in Latin America and makes important proposals about how Latin America's security crisis can be better addressed."
- Manuel Eisner, Wolfson Professor of Criminology, University of Cambridge

About the Author

Marcelo Bergman is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies on Insecurity and Violence at Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07C7DZCJG
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press (May 7, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 7, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3.0 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 404 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0190608773
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  • John J Bailey
    5.0 out of 5 stars Advances the conversation about citizen security in Latin America by a quantum leap.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2018
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    This impressive contribution advances the conversation about citizen security in Latin America by a quantum leap. Bergman pulls together data from a variety of sources (some from original surveys) to propose an ambitious theory about why crime has increased in the region in the midst of overall economic growth. Scholars can test the various hypotheses and will no doubt challenge some and modify others, but the book offers useful ways to understand the causes of crime and violence and to think about policy measures to counteract negative trends. One of the several useful concepts is the notion of High Crime Equilibrium, which helps us understand why and how criminal organizations diversify their activities when presented with opportunities for profit but with little risk of apprehension or prosecution. Central to the overall theory is the role of secondary markets, or economic informality, in creating incentives for criminal activity.
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  • Victor Flores
    5.0 out of 5 stars Necessary reading
    Reviewed in Mexico on May 28, 2020
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    Reading this book is necessary if you are to understand criminal tendencies in Latin America.
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