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This article is about interpersonal physical violence. The description of the course of violent crimes in Quebec, based on official statistics and surveys, shows an increase in these crimes and in gang fighting, but the level is equivalent to that we had already known. There are a number of factors responsible for this situation - recent immigration, the reappearance of adolescent gangs and certain social changes. An analysis of interpersonal violence by means of a longitudinal study of individuals shows that it is an activity of the youth, not often repeated and of short duration, which is preceded by other criminal activities. It has been established that there is a strong continuity between agressive acts in early childhood, fighting during adolescence and violent crimes during adulthood. It has also been shown that the appearance of this type of conduct can be predicted under certain conditions. The results call for several preventive measures : the integration of young immigrants, the development of mechanisms for adolescent conviviality, support during the transition from school to the workplace and energetic control of adolescent gangs. Concerning action with regard to individuals, we discuss early discovery of persons at risk and specific types of intervention.

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Qu'est-ce que la violence ? Voilà un terme polysémique, dont on use et on abuse - surtout aujourd'hui, à l'heure des « politiques sécuritaires ». Le but de ce livre est de montrer que la violence correspond avant tout à un domaine de la recherche en sciences humaines en pleine expansion et par ailleurs peut-être un des rares vrais lieux de la transdisciplinarité où se croisent inévitablement l'histoire, l'anthropologie, la sociologie, la psychologie, les sciences de l'évolution et les sciences politiques. Abordant tour à tour, en un jeu de « poupées russes », les thèmes de la violence des États (ce qui inclut guerres, mais aussi souvent massacres ou génocides), celle des institutions (de l'armée, de la police, de l'hôpital ou de l'école), puis celle des individus (entre groupes, celle des criminels, puis celle exercée contre soi), et enfin la question des instincts violents chez l'homme, ce livre rassemble des contributions qui rendent compte de l'état des recherches actuelles.

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The authors review the recent literature on crime and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean and present a broad overview of the main ideas and empirical findings. They provide estimates of the magnitude of the problem, trends, and the manifestations of crime and violence in Latin America. They also discuss the ways in which violence affects development, the root causes of violence, and the empirical evidence on the determinants of crime. The authors conclude by stressing that preventive measures and innovative social policies are efficient and underutilized strategies to address the problem and call for both more research and operational experimentation.

Crime --- Violence