This article examines the impact on the rule of law in Latin America from internal armed conflict and its attendant terrorism and human rights violati...
Prior research has shown that economic liberalization leads to greater levels of protest in the presence of open and democratic politics. Yet the meso...
Parties throughout Latin America have recently addressed two distinct kinds of electoral reforms: primary elections and national-level gender quota la...
The main questions in this study included: 1. To what extent, at what stage, and on what premises are deception, fraud, force, or coercion being used ...
The International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Rwanda (ICTR) have yet to reach their goal of reconciliation and the prosecution of rape...
Presents data on sexual victimization experienced by former state prisoners during their prior term of incarceration, including any time served in a l...
This paper examines how social exclusion contributes to violence in communities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Residents in socially excl...
Taking as its starting point a visible resurgence in the mid-to late 1990s of attempts to prosecute individual perpetrators for historical human right...
This article considers the relationship between social disclosure and corporate accountability in Canada. It focuses on the potential benefits social ...
Presents data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) on trends in the percentage of serious violent crime victims who received help or ad...
This monograph explores different psychological (e.g., depression, anger, or anxiety) and behavioral responses (e.g., not fighting back during a rape,...
This article examines states’ decisions to commit to human rights treaties. It argues that the effect of a treaty on a state—and hence the state’s wil...
This paper examines the validity of Augusto Pinochet’s amnesty decree in Chile, asserting that it violates the nation’s international treaty obligatio...