NCJ Number
142540
Editor(s)
C H Birkbeck,
J Martinez Rincones
Date Published
1992
Length
422 pages
Annotation
This collection of papers, presented at a 1986 conference on criminology in Latin America, reviews the historical, critical, and prospective and formal analysis of criminology in Latin America at that time.
Abstract
The purpose of the seminar was to analyze the principles that guide the study of criminology and the sociopolitical significance thereof within the context of Latin American criminologic theory. Seventeen articles offer opinions on the academic discipline of criminology in Latin America from a historical, general theory, and systems of power viewpoint. One section concentrates solely on Venezuela, while individual papers review the Argentine, Colombian, Ecuadorean, and Nicaraguan systems. 2 appendixes