Most violent cities in the world

• From armed conflict to urban violence: transformations in the ...

  the five most violent cities in the world (as measured by homicide rate) were all in Latin America, and each of them had a homicide rate of around fifty times the global average (Seguridad Justicia y Paz, 2018).

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• From violence to justice and security in cities - SAGE Journals

  Franz Vanderschueren. SUMMARY: This paper describes the growth in crime, especially violent crime, in cities around the world. It also describes the underlying causes or contributory factors to this growth and the responses of citizens and governments - most of which are largely ineffective.

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• [PDF File]POSITION PAPER DRUG POLICY AND CITY GOVERNMENT

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  Cities, which bear the brunt of repressive national and international drug control policies, are growing quickly. The total urban population will represent 68 percent of the world population by 2050. Drug trafficking, the most profitable illicit economy for organized crime, generates visible violence in cities that is used

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• [PDF File]Mexico: Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking Organizations

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  Uruapan, Irapuato, and Ciudad Obregon. In 2020, the council survey identified the top 6 of the 50 most violent cities in the world in Mexico. Julian Resendiz, “Body Count from Drug Cartel Wars Earns Mexican Cities Label of ‘Most Violent in the World,’” Border Report, April 21, 2021.

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• [PDF File]INTERNATIONAL STATISTICS on CRIME AND JUSTICE

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  person by another. As one of the most effectively recorded crimes, law enforcement data on intentional homicide is typically more readily available than for other crimes. As such, rates of intentional homicide per 100,000 population have sometimes been used as a proxy for levels of violent crime or even overall crime.

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• [PDF File]Understanding support for tough‐on‐crime policies in Latin ...

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  Salvador, Honduras, and Mexico, which are home to some of the most violent cities in the world (Calderón et al., 2019; UNODC, 2012, 2013). In this article, I focus on the importance of fear, in an effort to build on the previous scholarly works, which examine the role of criminal

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• A Common Vision for the Western Hemisphere - JSTOR

  The United States is the only developed country on the list, with four cities—St. Louis (13th), Baltimore (21st), New Orleans (41st), and Detroit (42nd)—among the 50 most violent in the world. Latin America, in particular, is considered the most violent region in the world. With less than 9 percent of the world’s population, Latin America Figure 1

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