{"id":2951,"date":"2017-02-10T11:56:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T11:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2951"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:34","slug":"the-most-violent-cities-latin-america-uk-and-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2017\/02\/10\/the-most-violent-cities-latin-america-uk-and-global\/","title":{"rendered":"The most violent cities (Latin America, UK and Global)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Chioda, Laura. 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/openknowledge.worldbank.org\/handle\/10986\/25920\">Stop the Violence in Latin America<\/a> : A Look at Prevention from Cradle to Adulthood. Latin American Development Forum;. Washington, DC: World Bank.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>This book has evidence that of the top 50 most violent cities in the world, 42 are in LAC. It examines the nature and causes of the violence and means of prevention.<\/p>\n<p>How does this compare with the UK? \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/peoplepopulationandcommunity\/crimeandjustice\/compendium\/focusonviolentcrimeandsexualoffences\/yearendingmarch2015\/chapter2homicide\">consult figures on the number type and circumstances of murders in the UK.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unodc.org\/gsh\/\">2013 Global study on Homicide<\/a> from the UNODC has worldwide data. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unodc.org\/gsh\/en\/country-data-profiles.html\">It also has regional data profiles.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chioda, Laura. 2017. Stop the Violence in Latin America : A Look at Prevention from Cradle to Adulthood. Latin American Development Forum;. Washington, DC: World Bank.\u00a0\u00a0 This book has evidence that of the top 50 most violent cities in the world, 42 are in LAC. It examines the nature and causes of the violence and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,15],"tags":[33,125],"class_list":["post-2951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminology","category-politics","category-sociology","tag-cities","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2952,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions\/2952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}