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“When Javier Zamora was nine, he traveled unaccompanied by bus, boat, and foot from El Salvador to the United States to reunite with his…
In her new book, Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall, HLS Assistant Professor of Law Anna…
In her new book, Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Assistant Professor of Public Policy Yanilda…
What are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions does lynching –…
Yanilda MarÃa González is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her research focuses on policing, state…
In countries around the world, from the United States to the Philippines to Chile, police forces are at the center of social unrest and…
This paper was written in preparation for a talk at the Catholic University of Chile (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) in December…
Many view civil wars as violent contests between armed combatants. But history shows that community groups, businesses, NGOs, local…