Women’s empowerment has been identified as a prerequisite for poverty reduction. In addition to driving overall economic growth, women’s empowerment has been found to have beneficial effects on fertility rates, child health and education outcomes, as well as community development. This...

Causal evidence of the effects of violent crime on its victims is sparse. Yet such evidence is needed to determine the social cost of crime and to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of policy interventions in the justice system. This study presents new evidence on the effects of violent crime on...

Our study is motivated by two disturbing evidences concerning women in India. On one hand, crime against women is on the rise while on the other, women's labor force participation rate (WLFPR) has been declining over the last three decades. We estimate the extent to which the decline in WLFPR...

Introduction to the topic -- Incivility -- Dysfunction in the workplace -- Deviant behaviors in the workplace -- Impact of these behaviors on the workplace -- Ways to address the darkside -- The phenomenon comes to life -- Index

Introduction -- The Latin American economy, and the political and criminal-political context -- Visible and invisible violence according to Johan Galtung -- Seeing invisible violence : case studies from Mexico, Ecuador, Chile and Argentina -- Linking economy and visible violence : case studies...

Preface -- Introduction: what is workplace violence? -- The foundation : creation of a workplace violence prevention policy -- Development of a threat management program -- Principles of threat assessment and management -- Legal considerations in the management of threats -- By michael a. crane,...

Wealth and violence: untangling a complex relationship -- Historical evolution of political and economic monopolies in Mexico, antiquity to the 1980s -- The onset and entrenchment of misplaced monopolies in Mexico's political economy, 1980s to 2006 -- Looking in vain for exits from misplaced...

Introduction -- Understanding your risk environment -- Program planning process -- Getting started : initial information gathering : gap analysis -- Building the framework -- Building the framework : key elements -- Building the framework : plan/assess -- Building the framework : implementation...

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) has been consistently linked to poor health and adverse social outcomes. Though there is substantial empirical evidence on the determinants of IPV, little attention has been given to the potential impact of income inequality on domestic violence, especially in the...