ABSTRACT The last two decades turned Latin America into one of the most violent regions in the world. While previously, violence in the region has predominantly been associated with state repression and military dictatorships, the “new violence” that emerged since the mid-1990s is predominantly criminal. Related research has been mostly problem-driven, implying that the focus has been on how to improve security governance in the region. The multiple ways in which governance itself is both shaped by as well as contributing to the pervasiveness of this “new violence,” has remained uncharted. This article offers an analytical framework, inspired by the literature on governance, for assessing this issue. To this end, it highlights different modes and instances of governance with, by, and through crime (and violence) in the region. In doing so, the article offers a contextualization for this special issue as well as an overarching analytical framework for the individual contributions.

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治理拉丁美洲的犯罪和暴力

摘要过去二十年来，拉丁美洲已成为世界上最暴力的地区之一。以前，该地区的暴力主要与国家镇压和军事独裁有关，而自1990年代中期以来出现的“新暴力”主要是犯罪。相关研究主要是由问题驱动的，这意味着重点一直放在如何改善该地区的安全治理上。治理本身本身是由多种形式形成的，并且也有助于这种“新暴力”的普遍性，但这种方式尚不清楚。本文提供了一个受治理文献启发的分析框架，用于评估此问题。为此，它着重指出了该地区通过犯罪（和暴力）进行，通过和通过其进行治理的不同模式和实例。在这样做，