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1 results foundAuthor: Blokker, Stefan Title: Race and the City: Looking into the Relationship between Fear of Crime and Racial Dynamics in Lima, Peru Summary: The Peruvian capital, Lima, is a bloating metropolis with a population of almost nine million people. Like most other large cities in Latin America, there is great socioeconomic and racial inequality in Lima, the city has a very diverse population; from the wealthy, and primarily of European descent, members of the higher classes in districts such as Miraflores and San Isidro to the poor rural migrants of indigenous and mestizo descent living in the pueblos jovenes and everything in between these two extremes. Tensions based on socioeconomic and racial status have always been present in this city. In the era of so-called “new violence”, defined as organised coercion through the evasion or undermining of the formally democratic state’s legitimate monopoly on violence for criminal/economic purposes, these tensions remain and have intertwined with crime and more specifically with the fear of crime. The main research problem in this study is the relationship between the socioeconomic and racial dynamics in Peru and the fear of crime experienced by members of the upper middle-class in Lima. Details: Utrecht: University of Utrecht, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, 2010. 60p. Source: Internet Resource: Master's Thesis: Accessed April 5, 2011 at: http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/student-theses/2011-0222-200311/Stefan%20Blokker%20-%20Master%20Thesis%202010%20LACS%20Stefan%20Blokker%203082814.pdf Year: 2010 Country: Peru URL: http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/student-theses/2011-0222-200311/Stefan%20Blokker%20-%20Master%20Thesis%202010%20LACS%20Stefan%20Blokker%203082814.pdf Shelf Number: 121250 Keywords: Fear of Crime (Lima, Peru)Race and CrimeSocioeconomic Variables |