By Moser Caroline O. N., Cathy McIlwaine
Latin the US is either the world's so much urbanized quickest constructing areas, the place the hyperlinks among social exclusion, inequality and violence are truly obvious. The banal, ubiquitous nature of drug crime, theft, gang and intra-family violence destabilizes international locations' economies and harms their humans and social structures.Encounters with Violence & Crime in Latin the USA explores the which means of violence and lack of confidence in 9 cities and towns in Columbia and Guatemala to create a framework of the way and why day-by-day violence occurs on the neighborhood point. It makes use of pioneering new equipment of participatory city appraisal to invite area people approximately their very own perceptions of violence as mediated by means of kinfolk, gender, ethnicity and age. It develops a typology which distinguishes among the political, social, and monetary violence that afflicts groups, and which assesses the prices of outcomes of violence by way of group unity and social capital. this offers voice to these whose day-by-day lives and ruled via common aggression, and gives very important new insights for researchers and policy-makers.
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From the extensive debate on capabilities, assets and livelihoods, there is a widespread consensus that the five most important capital assets of the poor can be usefully categorized as physical, financial, human, social and natural capital assets (Carney 1998; Chambers and Conway 1992; Moser 1998; Moser and Norton 2001). The consequences of violence can be analyzed in terms of their direct and indirect effects on various capital assets. For instance, physical and financial capital comprises the stock of plant, equipment, infrastructure and other productive resources owned by individuals, the business sector or the country itself, as well as the financial resources available to people (savings, supplies of credit).
As mentioned in the introductory section of this chapter, this research was conceived within a development policy environment. Therefore, before turning to the research contexts of Colombia and Guatemala, Chapter 2 outlines the policy debates and the contribution of participatory methodologies to the study of violence, fear and insecurity. 19 2 TOWARD A POLICYRELEVANT POSITIONING OF VIOLENCE The role of participatory research methodologies This chapter turns to a second important area of contestation.
The costs and consequences of violence Closely related to the causal factors underlying violence are the costs and consequences of violent action. If there is less of a contested debate about this aspect of violence than others, this can be attributed to current limitations in measurement methodologies. To date, most Latin American research is based on the economic measurement of monetary costs, which provides a common, interpretable metric for understanding the impact of crime on both individuals and society.