Beyond sticks and stones
Human capital enhancement efforts in response to violent crime in Latin America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7286282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Rivera (0000-0003-1554-2681, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, corresponding author), Barbara Zárate‐tenorio (0000-0002-2185-8036, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas), BARBARA ZARATE-TENORIO (Division of Public Administration; Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE); Mexico) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 531-548 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Political Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0304-4130 • E-ISSN: 1475-6765 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1475-6765.12139 |
| OpenAlex | W2292783118 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 41 |
Violent crime has been commonplace in Latin America over the past decades. While existing research has made progress in explaining the rationale and outcomes of government coercive strategies against crime, it has overlooked the non-coercive strategies implemented to improve public security. It is argued in this article that political authorities make human capital enhancement efforts to shape actors' incentives about criminal activity and mitigate crime. Accordingly, it is hypothesised that violent crime increases human capital enhancement efforts, and that the effect of violent crime on human capital enhancement efforts is larger when left-oriented governments are in power because they stress actors' motivations over windows of opportunities as the main drivers of crime. Support for these hypotheses is found in a sample of Latin American democracies in the period 1990–2007
Archaeology · Capital (architecture · Criminology · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Human capital · Latin Americans · Political science · Sociology · Violent crime · Agricultural risk and resilience · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · History · Law · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,88 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |