This research report examines the impact of criminal deportation to Honduras on public safety in Canada.

This book shines a light on digital protest and cyber crime from Argentina, Brazil and Colombia to El Salvador and Mexico.

This timely report comes at a decisive moment in history where we can reshape urban environments and health systems.

This article considers the digital ecosystem linking gangs in San Diego, Tijuana and more widely across Mexico and other parts of Latin America.

This text analyzes Brazil’s internal issues on justice and security agendas.

    What Explains Criminal Violence in Mexico City? A Test of Two Theories of Crime There are competing theories of what drives crime in cities and neighbourhoods. Two widely cited theoretical approaches focused on social disorganization and institutional anomie propose different explanations for the…

Stabilisation, as a concept and set of practices, has proliferated over the past two decades and is now implicitly integrated into a range of global frameworks

The disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) of former combatants is a mainstay of the contemporary post-war peace agenda

India has reached the second largest number of homicides in the world, which policies should be applied in order to reverse these statistics?

The Cape Town Dialogue included a number of in-depth discussions about crime and violence prevention in urban communities.

After more than a century of steady city expansion in northern countries, the direction of twenty-first century population growth is shifting southwards. Over the next five decades, Africans, Arabs, and Asians will migrate in unprecedented numbers to cities, especially to their slums. Many of these…

This briefing examines Brazil’s position on the inclusion of peace within the post-2015 development agenda and also engages with some of the arguments that Brazil has made to date.

Deconstructing the fragile city: exploring insecurity, violence and resilience An emerging social category – the fragile city – can be described as a discrete metropolitan unit whose governance arrangements exhibit a declining ability and/or willingness to deliver on the social contract. Fragility is thus no…

Humanitarian agencies are questioning when and how to engage with violent urban settings. This article presents possible ways to solve this question.

The special collection – Citizen Security Dialogues: Dispatches from Mexico – features original research from Mexico’s leading security and justice experts.