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Vol. 27 No. 74 (2012): Violence in Latin American Neighborhoods
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Vol. 27 No. 74 (2012)

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Desmond Arias
May 2012
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Using social disorganization theory to understand the spatial distribution of homicides in Bogota, Colombia
Gipsy A. Escobar
May 2012
The social disorganization tradition has found community disadvantage to be one of the strongest and most consistent macro-level predictors of homicides in u...
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Individual and Residential Surrounding Determinants on the Sense of Security in Neighborhoods of Santiago, Chile
Javier Núñez, Ximena Tocornal, Pablo Henríquez
May 2012
The sense of security of inhabitants within the immediate residential surrounding is nurtured by personal and land factors and social relationships among ne...
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Unidad Cinturon Sur. Impacts of a new security policy on a large residential complex in Buenos Aires
Tomás Raspall
May 2012
The increase in crime and the sense of insecurity in Buenos Aires has become an issue that sever...
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Security programs aimed at neighborhoods, the recent Chilean experience
Hugo Frühling, Roberto Andrés Gallardo Terán
May 2012
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Collective efficacy as a social control strategy of space: evidence from Cuernavaca, Mexico
Alfonso Valenzuela Aguilera
May 2012
The differential capacity of neighborhoods and settlements to promote shared values among residents and exercise social control is a key factor that determin...
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The reconstruction of social movements within critical neighborhoods: the case of the “Coordinadora de Pobladores José María Ca...
Leslie Parraguez Sanchez
May 2012
The history of José María Caro is similar to those of other historical communities located in the periurban area of Santiago labelled as critical neighborhoo...
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Violence on the periurban area of Santiago. José María Caro
Juan Carlos Ruiz Flores
May 2012
The increase in violence in Latin America coincides with the restoration of democracy in most of ...
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Urban violence, social exclusión and ghettoization: the history of Santa Adriana
Graciela Alejandra Lunecke Reyes
May 2012
This paper shows the relationship between drug trafficking and the social exclusion processes faced by residents of Santa Adriana during the early days of th...
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Prevention of crime in a Buenos Aires slum (Argentina). Integration and participation, analysis of community assumptions on pre...
Inés María Mancini
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The goal of this paper is to analyze the way in which people taking part in the Comunidades Vulnerables program work to prevent crime in a slum. In this way,...

INVI Journal founded in 1986, disseminates the advances in knowledge about housing, residential habitat and territorial studies from an academic / scientific perspective and international coverage. It aims to publish high-quality original contributions product of research and interdisciplinary approaches.

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Editorial Team

Editor-in-Chief

  • Dr. Pablo Navarrete-Hernández, Universidad de Chile, Chile

Managing editor

  • MDCC Sandra Rivera, Universidad de Chile, Chile

Editorial board

  • Dra. Julie-Anne Boudreau, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
  • Dr. Victor Delgadillo, Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, México
  • Dra. Maria Mercedes Di Virgilio, CONICET/ Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Dr. Ricardo Hurtubia González, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
  • Dra. Irene Molina, Uppsala Universitet, Suecia
  • Dr. Gonzalo Lautaro Ojeda Ledesma, Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile
  • Dra. Suzana Pasternak, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
  • Dr. Javier Ruiz Sánchez , Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, España
  • Dra. Elke Schlack Fuhrmann, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Universidad Andres Bello, Chile
  • Dr. Carlos Alberto Torres Tovar, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
  • Dr. José Francisco Vergara-Perucich, Universidad de Las Américas, Chile

Thematic editors

  • Dra. Mónica Aubán Borrell, Universidad de Chile, Chile
  • Dr. Gabriel Felmer, Universidad de Chile, Chile
  • Dr. Carlos Lange Valdés, Universidad de Chile, Chile
  • Dr. Daniel Muñoz Zech, Universidad de Chile, Chile
  • Dra. Rebeca Silva Roquefort, Universidad de Chile, Chile

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