How to Start Over: Coping Mechanisms During Individual Women Displacement by Organized Crime. Women & Criminal Justice.
What happens after women silently flee organized crime? Drawing on in-depth interviews in Mexico, this paper reveals how displaced women mobilize personal, family, community, and institutional resources to survive, rebuild their lives, and confront the uncertainty of starting over.
The Unintended Consequences of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs for Violence: Experimental and Survey Evidence from Mexico and the Americas
Can anti-poverty programs unintentionally increase violence? Evidence from Mexico and Latin America suggests that they do. This study challenges assumptions that their effects are uniformly beneficial.