Stakeholder mapping of citizen security interventions in El ...

The objective of this paper is a twofold exercise: first, to map stakeholders in El Salvador that engage on citizen security and violence prevention programs and, second, explore potential gaps of opp...

Citizen security and human capital: Implementation manual an...

This manual examines how human capital projects (health and education) financed by the World Bank can integrate activities that address citizen security. While the manual provides important informatio...

Just-in-Time Support

Beginning in January 2019, the LC2 CMU has advocated a cross-cutting holistic approach to identifying opportunities for possible design elements or changes that could make investment projects more res...

Operational Tools

As our Toolkit page on Research and Evaluative Evidence shows, the evidence base on crime and violence is built from a wide range of methods that generates a diverse body of evidence ranging from mere...

Research and Evaluative Evidence

The body of research and evaluative evidence on what crime and violence looks like and where it occurs, on factors that seem to either increase risk or enhance protection, on approaches that have been...

Data Resources

Data on interpersonal violence and violent crime is messy and uneven. Crime statistics (other than homicides) are not always comparable across countries.  The likelihood that a crime will be reported ...

Risk Factors and Potential Interventions

RISK FACTORS   POTENTIAL INTERVENTIONS Inequality and poverty, rapid social change, Policies that increase inequality of opportunity Gender inequality, violent discrimination against minorities Failur...

Understanding Crime and Violence in Central America

To understand crime and violence, we must first abandon some prior beliefs that were deeply embedded in development thinking for many years:  the diagnosis that crime and violence are symptoms of a co...