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Desistance from Crime of Young Offenders in Argentina: A Qualitative Study
The present study describes the processes of change that are associated with individual transformations that lead youth offenders in Argentina to...
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Understanding and Preventing Recidivism of Young Offenders in Argentina
This book aims to advance knowledge about the recidivism of young offenders. It reviews knowledge about risk factors for recidivism and about...
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Cocaine trafficking from non-traditional ports: examining the cases of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay
This article presents the results of an exploratory study aimed to analyze the contexts in which the use of Non-Traditional ports of cocaine...
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Evangelical Wings and Prison Governance in Argentina
The first evangelical wings emerged in Argentina during the 1980s. Since then, its number multiplied. This phenomenon has an increasing complexity...
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Crime Concentration and Hot Spot Dynamics: An Examination of Homicides in Santa Fe, Argentina
This study aims to facilitate a general understanding of the spatial concentration of crime in Latin America. Thus, the spatial concentration of...
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Risk Factors for Juvenile Recidivists Versus One-Time Offenders in Argentina: Comparisons with Other Countries
This article analyses risk factors for criminal recidivism of young offenders in Argentina, compared with studies in other countries; 65 recidivists...
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Law, Economic Crisis, and Diversity: An Overview of Rehabilitation in Argentina
As this Chapter explains, although under the 1853 Argentine Constitution prisons are for rehabilitation, not for punishment and the pro homine...
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Empty pack survey to estimate Illicit Tobacco Trade in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina
While Illicit Tobacco Trade (ITT) is a serious threat to the effectiveness of tobacco control policies worldwide, to this day tobacco-industry...
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Between the legal technique and the social question: the plural commitments of public defenders in Argentina
The criminal process in the Province of Buenos Aires has been affected by radical reforms in the last decades. Beginning with the complete...
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Conclusions and Recommendations
This chapter briefly highlights the main findings that have been found in quantitative and qualitative research on juvenile offenders in the...
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Quantitative Analysis
Despite the high prevalence of youth offending in Argentina, there are relatively few investigations of the factors that may be associated with it....
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Qualitative Analysis
This chapter presents qualitative analysis in Argentina and compares desistance narratives with persistence narratives, based on 43 juveniles who did...
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Protective Factors for Youth Desistance
Identifying the key protective factors that promote desistance among young offenders and distinguishing the “active ingredients” of social, cultural,...
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Risk Factors for Youth Offending and Recidivism
This chapter reviews knowledge about risk factors for juvenile delinquency and juvenile recidivism. In understanding “how and why individuals exceed...
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Prevention of Youth Offending and Recidivism
This chapter explains, demonstrates and justifies the relevance to focus on the prevention of delinquency and later recidivism from an early age....
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Introduction
This chapter introduces the book’s contents. The present book aims to advance knowledge about the recidivism of young offenders. The main aims are:...
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The Language of the Numbers
Considering that in Argentina we lack official statistical information on the arrests made by the police on the migrant population, this chapter...
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Introduction: Approach and Contextualization
This introductory chapter presents the relations between immigration, crime, police and politics in the City of Buenos Aires between 2015 and 2019 as...
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Political Discourses Around the Immigration-Crime Nexus
In this chapter, I address the ways of defining the nexus between immigration and crimeImmigration and crime in the political discoursesPolitical...
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Police, Politics, Immigration and Crime: A State of Art
This chapter presents a subjective and personal overview of the literature produced on the links between immigration, crime, police and politics....