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Reducing Violence and Improving the Rule of Law: Organized Crime, Marginalized Communities, and the Political Machine

This literature review seeks to highlight specific policy interventions against risk factors that predispose comm- unities towards gangs, organized crime, and electoral violence; and interventions that attack each of those types of violence directly.

by Yusuf AhmadAlyssa DoughertyRachel Kleinfeld, and Alejandro Ponce
published by
World Justice Project and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
 on September 24, 2014

Source: World Justice Project and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

This literature review seeks to highlight specific policy interventions against risk factors that predispose communities towards gangs, organized crime, and electoral violence; and interventions that attack each of those types of violence directly. This is by no means a comprehensive report, given the extensive scholarship that has been dedicated to these three issues. It is, however, a starting point from which we can begin to explore the success or failure of policy interventions, and the contexts in which they have been found to work or fail. We hope to add to this review before and following the workshop, with the help of workshop participants.

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