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Barrio 18

Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 53: Barrio 18 and MS-13 Prison Riot and Massacre in Támara Women’s Prison, Honduras

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07.01.2023 at 12:52am
Carabineros

Organized Crime in Chile: The Challenge Ahead

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05.05.2023 at 12:43am
Carabineros de Chile

El Crimen Organizado en Chile: El desafío que se avecina

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04.20.2023 at 08:23pm
Op Plata

Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 52: Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) Cell Suspected of Using Evangelical Churches as Fronts for Money Laundering

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02.21.2023 at 09:36pm
DIPAMPCO

Security at the Expense of Constitutional Guarantees: The Case of Honduras

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02.07.2023 at 02:49am
Llantas

Why Tire Repair Workshops Are the Target of a Wave of Violence in Guanajuato, Mexico

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01.19.2023 at 10:17pm
Gangs Militias RJ

Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 51: Milícias (Militias) Continue to Surpass Gangues (Gangs) in Dominating Criminal Territory in Rio de Janeiro

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09.28.2022 at 01:03am
STF

Commentary: ADPF 635. The interweaving of the International Human Rights Law and the International Humanitarian Law in the repression of the territorially dominant Third Generation Gangs in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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07.18.2022 at 05:51pm
.50 Cal

Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 47: Woman with a Baby Arrested at Novo Rio Bus Station for Transporting a .50 Caliber Anti-Materiel Rifle in Her Luggage to Comando Vermelho Norte

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04.08.2022 at 04:11am
Barrio 18

From 18th Street to Barrio 18: The Morphing of a Barrio

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12.08.2021 at 10:57pm
ParGuatemala

Corruption, Crime, and Gangs in Central America: Understanding the Root Causes

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10.25.2021 at 11:43pm
Armas

Troubled Succession: what leadership decapitation means for Rio’s militias 

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08.05.2021 at 08:55pm
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