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Formal and Informal Security Governance in the Americas

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Global Gangs: Street Violence across the World. Edited by HazenJennifer M. and RodgersDennis. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. Pp. vii + 300. $82.50 cloth. $27.50 paper. ISBN: 9780816691470.

La situación de la seguridad y la justicia, 2009–2014: Entre expectativas de cambio, mano dura militar y treguas pandilleras. Instituto Universitario de Opinión Pública (IUDOP). San Salvador: IUDOP, 2014. Pp. vii + 201.

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Sonja Wolf*
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Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)
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