María Laura Böhm

The Crime of Maldevelopment (eBook, ePUB)

Economic Deregulation and Violence in the Global South

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the causal relationship between the deregulation of international economic interests and the forms of violence that prevail in the Global South, looking speficially at the extractive industries and multinational expansionism

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351135450
• Artikelnr.: 54086134

Autorenporträt

María Laura Böhm is an Argentine-German lawyer at the University of Buenos Aires, and a criminologist at both the National University of Lomas de Zamora in Argentina and the University of Hamburg in Germany. She obtained her PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Hamburg (with the support of a scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation) and was Post-Doc Researcher (with a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Starting in 2015, she became a fulltime DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Long-Term Guest Professor at the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires. Her main research interests are the link between criminogenic conditions, economy, transnational corporations and human rights in Latin America, violence and maldevelopment, as well as criminal and security policies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Latin American Economy
and the Political and Criminal-Political Context
2. Visible and Invisible Violence According to Johan Galtung
3. Seeing Invisible Violence - Case Studies from Mexico
Ecuador
Chile and Argentina
4. Linking Economy and Visible Violence - Case Studies from Guatemala
Brazil
Peru and Honduras
5. The Vicious Circle of Deregulated International Businesses and Violence
7. The Crime of Maldevelopment as a Needed Conceptual Category of Criminology
Approaching the Crime of Maldevelopment - Conclusion and Starting Point