Jennifer Peirce: Prison Violence in Latin America

Our 2015 Scholar Jennifer Peirce has co-authored an article titled "Concentrated Violence: The Influence of Criminal Activity and Governance on Prison Violence in Latin America." 

Drawing on data from prisoner surveys, Jennifer Peirce and Gustavo Fondevila analyze the association between facility-level and individual-level rates of experiences of violence and the extent of perceived criminal activity committed in or ordered from inside prisons. 

The full article is available here(access limited to subscribers of the journal).