Citation

Fondevila G, Meneses Reyes R. Homicide Stud. 2015; 19(4): 370-383.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1088767914550714

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This research note aims to answer the following questions: (a) How do Latin American authorities systematize and report data regarding deaths due to legal intervention? (b) To what extent is this information public and available? (c) Can this information help to better understand and compare regional patterns of lethal violence perpetrated by the State? Research findings suggest that data regarding deaths due to legal intervention are still an unreliable source of information, thereby hampering any cross-national comparison of how lethal violence is exercised by the State in Latin America.

Language: en

Keywords

cross-national comparison; deaths due to legal intervention; distribution of violence; Latin America; State use of deadly force