Security and Development? A Story about Petty Crime, the Petty State and its Petty Law

Lina Fernanda Buchely Ibarra, Luis Eslava
2019 | Universidad de los Andes

In this article we engage with the promises and limits of the “Security and Development” discourse. Using Cali (Colombia) as our case study, we show how initiatives associated with this discourse, instead of helping States move beyond insecurity, exclusion and low levels of development by ...