Violencia letal en América Latina

Abstract

After referring briefly to criminological trends that have occupied the debate over the last century, all of them imported to Latin American countries, the author warns of the need to change the perspective to look at north from the south, because facing the -letal- situation of violence suffered by countries in Central and South America, these epistemological references provide no solution. Criminologists of the region are called to direct their work to the study of the local reality and the scandalous crime of genocide – in small doses - in Latin America, which is ignored, despite taking place at the request of state agencies or it is incentivized by them in the context of the struggle for power.