Government Legitimacy, Social Solidarity, and American Homicide in Historical Perspective …in mature democracies to better understand and counter political violence and other forces that damage democratic norms and institutions, imperiling the safety of citizens. Read or download the report (PDF)…
Hardships and Violence against Street Children in Sub-Saharan African Cities: Understanding Street Children and Street Life in Urban Tanzania …them as criminals and most of them experience general violence and, for girls, sexual violence tends to be the routine of life. The study argues that street life has tremendous…
Beijing-Seoul Families and Neighborhoods Study …social control of family violence, and do such differences explain cultural differences in the prevalence and severity of domestic violence and child maltreatment? These are the principal questions the Families…
Exploring Violent Careers over the Life Course: A Study of Urban African American Males and Females …20% of the male cohort still being arrested for violence in their mid-thirties. In fact, the prevalence rates of property and violence are similar throughout the twenties and thirties for…
Drug Cartels’ Violence in New and Traditional Illegal Markets …increase violence in municipalities crossed by oil pipelines. At the same time, such municipalities witnessed a deterioration of socio-economic conditions as measured by infant mortality and school dropout rates. Violence…
The Kayapo Conjuncture: An Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance with International Civil Society Against Violence and Rights Abuse by the State and National Security …of the mid-90s to mid-2000s might have general implications for the conventional wisdom of developmentalist theory, anthropological and political science treatments of the relation of marginal and ‘weak’ populations and…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2021 Emerging Scholars …problems of violence in Western and Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the United States. As always, we hope that research on how violence originates, what sustains it,…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2020 Dissertation Fellows …of Organized Crime Chulani Kodikara (Political Science, University of Edinburgh). Grief and Hope, Inscription and Erasure: A Struggle for Truth and Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka Molly Minden (Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison). Legacies…
At the Crossroads: Behind the Rise in Gun Violence in New York and Other American Cities HFG’s ‘At the Crossroads’ series concludes with the publication of “Behind the Rise in Gun Violence in New York and Other American Cities,” a compilation of the twelve interviews conducted…
“Soldiers in Exile”: Dr. Godfrey Maringira …casts a light on the oppression of soldiers by commanders who sought to repress and control the political thinking of their men. By contextualizing the political, economic and material conditions…
