Organised crime generated by groups that expanded after the disappearance of the USSR was somewhat unexpected in the West and difficult to predict due to the conditions of concealment in which this great crime developed within Soviet borders. These are sophisticated organised crime groups whose firs...

The purpose of this article is to discuss the measures and programmes for the eradication of illegal crops that have been put in place in some countries, and their negative consequences for farmers who participate or not in these activities, in particular in Latin American countries, and in particul...

There are many opinion polls usually conducted to find out what people think about the issues surrounding them, especially in relation to security. The responses reflect the anxiety of the fleet in all environments as a result of the increase in crime and acts that affect peaceful and calm coexisten...

Summary The present article develops a quantitative descriptive analysis on the performance of the system through which the Colombian Government implements its criminal public policy: judicial, criminal and prison system. This study is carried out not from the point of view of law, but from the poin...

Informal settlements are currently an undisputed reality in cities in many emerging countries. They have been consolidated as an alternative form of barrial training by the lower social classes. These phenomena result in a large number of problems of health, exclusion, violence and crime due, among...

The article starts from the discovery of the complexity of the phenomenon of violence, either because of the wide range of actors involved or because of the heterogeneity of the factors affecting it, then goes on to briefly describe all the crises (economic, environmental, food and energy) that are...

Feliz initiative of three enthusiastes in history (currently embarked on postgraduate projects), this book is an indisputable contribution to the development of Chilean colonial histography. As a result of a lucky meeting with the judicial archives, the transcription of five cases within the main Co...

In the field of crime, neither the potential of noise as a cause or effect of diverted behaviour, nor its environmental aspect, have been analysed in the same way as other environmental phenomena. Green Criminology and Environmental Criminal Law are emerging areas of recognised importance in the so-...

This work explores the possibilities of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for the study of spatial aspects related to fear of crime in urban contexts, and presents a specific case: study of fear of crime in DonostiaSan Sebastian. Based on surveys of a sample of residents, the distribution of t...

At a time when political and criminal decisions in Spain have become of social, media and political significance until recently, this work is intended to highlight, using almost exclusively statistical graphs, which is the reality of crime in Spain at the beginning of the 21st century. The aim is t...

This article presents an exploratory analysis of the possibilities for measuring organised crime2 in Spain. Initially, the difficulties in measuring organised crime in terms of its definition, the complexity of its identity, the existing sources of data and the possibilities for obtaining it are ad...

In this work, the relationship between gender, victimisation, criminality, enforcement of the prison sentence and social reintegration of women criminals are analysed. They are the fruits of the work carried out under the R & D project “Equality and criminal law: gender and nationality as primar...

Con el fin de determinar las causas por las cuales una persona ingresa a un grupo armado ilegal en Antioquia, se revisó la literatura existente tanto en el ámbito internacional como en el nacional. La misma se contrastó con la información cuantitativa existente de los victimarios y exvictimarios en...

En este artículo pretendo establecer las verdaderas razones del por qué de la baja en la criminalidad en los Estados Unidos durante la década de 1990. Comienzo con una revisión de los hechos y después analizo las principales explicaciones del por qué de la baja, fijándome en posibles determinantes q...

El crimen organizado es una de las manifestaciones criminales que se han fortalecido dentro de la economía globalizada. Italia, por su experiencia con la mafia, ha desarrollado diversos mecanismos, entre ellos, la responsabilidad del ente y la confiscación, que son medidas dirigidas a prevenir el lu...

This article examines the foundations and methodologies of territoriality doctrine as a strategy for preventing crime in residential areas. This brief review is contrasted with the physico-spatial characteristics of the ‘criminal zones’ of the Santiago Metropolitan Area (Project FONDECYT 1930796). T...

En vista de la escasez de trabajos que aborden la participación de niñas y mujeres en el crimen, nuestro objetivo es presentar un estudio de caso de delincuencia femenina, extraído de los resultados parciales de la investigación «Curso de vida y trayectoria delincuente: un estudio exploratorio de ev...

This article deals with the treatment of criminality and some of its consequences for the notion of punishment in neoliberal societies and control of late modernity, broadening the legalistic idea of culpable stigmatisation, since this is part of the government rationality and the driving that opera...

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This work seeks to remove the associative empirical veil that has involved immigration with citizen insecurity by assessing the implementation of the judicial past as a measure adopted by the Lucio Gutiérrez government (2004) to the entry of Colombian citizens into Ecuador since the national percept...

On the periphery of the city of Santiago, there are areas of social housing characterised by a high concentration of economic and material insecurity, spatial segregation, processes of weakening the community fabric and high levels of insecurity, the latter due to the presence of groups linked to cr...

<p>En este artículo se observa como se han formado en el «oeste», desde la Guerra Fría hasta hoy, algunos estereotipos negativos sobre la marca «Europa del Este», la cual está cargada de connotaciones negativas (ciudades grises, guerras, inmigración ilegal, pobreza o criminalidad). Al mismo tiempo,...

En el corazón de la Guatemala rural que nutre a la sociedad colonial con su producción agrícola y a la Corona con sustanciosos tributos, la pobreza genera un aumento en la incidencia de robo de ganado, el cual representa un recurso preciado. El abigeato se vislumbra como una suerte de resistencia po...

Death and logic Death and logic Death and logic Death and logic Death and logic Death and logic becomes a key hub for youth groups linked to violence. The image of Colombian sicario, a young boy willing to kill or be killed by a payment, is the final embodiment of this universe where life is no long...

the influence of the media on the social perception of crime has hardly been the subject of any empirical investigation in Spain. There is, however, a widespread belief that they often offer a distorted view of crime, and that they increasingly determine the content of the political and criminal dec...