Research

Crime prediction models are a useful tool for building prevention strategies in major cities. However, there are limitations for its application in intermediate cities, which have little information. This paper offers an effective computational strategy for crime prediction.

The study of environmental politics in Latin America and the Caribbean expands as conflicts stemming from the deterioration of the natural world increase. Yet this scholarship has not generated a broad research agenda similar to the ones that emerged around other key political phenomena. This book seeks to address the lack of a comprehensive research agenda in Latin American and Caribbean environmental politics and helps integrate the existing, disparate literatures.

How are international funds to fight climate change and environmental degradation distributed to subnational beneficiaries? This research develops a novel multilevel theory that poses that tension between the preferences of the IO and national governments helps explain the subnational distribution of environmental aid – even more than pure environmental or social need.

Partisans share more content than nonpartisans and their preferences differ from those of non-partisans. 

Lorente discusses his observations of 30 years as a reporter, editor, teacher and journalism school administrator on how the journalism’s business model and its bond of trust with Americans are weakening to the breaking point.

Rafael Lorente, Associate Dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism and LACS Affiliate Faculty joins the inagural board of the new Center for Media Integrity of the Americas.

Carolina Sampó, the 2022-2023 LACS Postdoctoral Fellow was awarded a research grant by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). The grant funds Dr. Sampó's research into the role of women in the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) drug cartel of Brazil and the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) of Mexico.

Carolina Sampó, the 2022-2023 LACS Postdoctoral Fellow, was invited to present her research on the global activities of drug cartels at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, UK.

Carolina Sampó, the 2022-2023 LACS Postdoctoral Fellow, was invited to present her research on drug cartels at the Global Iniciative Against Transnational Organized Crime.

Carolina Sampó, the 2022-2023 LACS Postdoctoral Fellow, was invited to present her research on crime in Latin America at the seminar organized by the Millennium Institute for Research on Violence and Democracy (Vio-demos) in Santiago, Chile.