Crime of Maldevelopment

María Laura Böhm is an Argentine-German lawyer at the University of Buenos Aires, and a criminologist at both the National University of Lomas de Zamora in Argentina and the University of Hamburg in Germany. She obtained her PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Hamburg (with the support of a scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation) and was Post-Doc Researcher (with a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Starting in 2015, she became a fulltime DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Long-Term Guest Professor at the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires. Her main research interests are the link between criminogenic conditions, economy, transnational corporations and human rights in Latin America, violence and maldevelopment, as well as criminal and security policies.

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• Introduction, 1. The Latin American Economy, and the Political and Criminal-Political Context, 2. Visible and Invisible Violence According to Johan Galtung, 3. Seeing Invisible Violence – Case Studies from Mexico, Ecuador, Chile and Argentina, 4. Linking Economy and Visible Violence – Case Studies from Guatemala, Brazil, Peru and Honduras, 5. The Vicious Circle of Deregulated International Businesses and Violence, 7. The Crime of Maldevelopment as a Needed Conceptual Category of Criminology, Approaching the Crime of Maldevelopment - Conclusion and Starting Point