Download or read book Crime and Violence as Development Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Robert L. Ayres and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime and violence have emerged in recent years as major obstacles to development objectives in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. The paper explicates an agenda for future work that may assist LAC countries by discussing 'policy domains' where action is required. Such domains include reducing urban poverty, targeting efforts on 'at-risk' groups, building or rebuilding social capital, strengthening municipal capacity for combating crime and violence, and reforming the criminal justice system.