The purpose of this document is to prove that the establishment in Argentina of regulations and records for exchange market transactions has a positive externality with respect to the prevention and control of asset laundering and potential terrorist financing, thus making this type of criminal...

This paper uses cost accounting to estimate some of the costs associated with criminal activity and violence in Uruguay. Among the costs being considered are those of security and crime prevention; justice; incarceration and rehabilitation of prisoners; stolen goods; health care and loss of life...

Este trabajo busca encontrar los determinantes de los homicidios en Bogotá, explicar la existencia de zonas con elevadas tasas de homicidio y establecer cuáles son las políticas más adecuadas en pro de la disminución de los homicidios. Para este fin, se construyen mapas y se hace uso de la...

En el presente documento se analizan y evalúan, desde una perspectiva jurídica, el desarrollo y eficiencia del proceso penal en los delitos de secuestro extorsivo y extorsión en Bogotá y Cundinamarca para el período 1998-2004. A partir de un estudio multivariado, en el que se controla por...

This article analyses the factors that cause violence in Latin America. It argues that high levels of violence can not be reduced in the medium and long term just by repressive policies, and without fulfilling prerequisites that lead to a more cohesive society, among them: to reduce...

This paper criticizes multicausal and penal impunity explanations of violence and crime. It shows the analytical limits of identifying state and social institutional failure with objective causes of violence. But also highlights that impunity indicators cannot be confused with impunity itself....

This essay argues that the design and evaluation of legal reforms require an expert, empirical, local and multidisciplinary approach. From criminology, an auxiliary discipline of criminal law, several practical, theoretical and normative lessons can be drawn; for example, the way it addresses...