Citation

Tedesco L. Bull. Latin Am. Res. 2000; 19(4): 527-545.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, Society for Latin American Studies, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1016/S0261-3050(00)00003-6

PMID

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Abstract

The article argues that the increase in crime and urban violence in Argentina, especially in Buenos Aires, can be explained as an outcome of the interaction of four factors: the new social relations established by neoliberalism; the incapacity of the state to resolve the social conflicts which have arisen from these new social relations; the failure to democratise the security forces; and the exclusion of a sector of society from the rights of effective democratic citizenship. The increase in crime and urban violence is, thus, analysed as a problem of governability.