TY - JOUR PY - 2015// TI - The problems and promises of research on deaths due to legal intervention in Latin America JO - Homicide studies A1 - Fondevila, Gustavo A1 - Meneses Reyes, Rodrigo SP - 370 EP - 383 VL - 19 IS - 4 N2 - This research note aims to answer the following questions: (a) How do Latin American authorities systematize and report data regarding deaths due to legal intervention? (b) To what extent is this information public and available? (c) Can this information help to better understand and compare regional patterns of lethal violence perpetrated by the State? Research findings suggest that data regarding deaths due to legal intervention are still an unreliable source of information, thereby hampering any cross-national comparison of how lethal violence is exercised by the State in Latin America.
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LA - en SN - 1088-7679 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1088767914550714 ID - ref1 ER -