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The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence

The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence

Haugen, Gary A.
Boutros, Victor

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CriminologyGeneral SociologyPoverty & Social Work

Publisher Price: $23.99

ISBN10: 0190229268
ISBN13: 9780190229269
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 20 2015
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
A Washington Post bestseller

While the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, the hidden plague of everyday violence silently undermines our best efforts to help the poor. Common violence like rape, forced labor, illegal detention, land theft, and police abuse has become routine and relentless. And like a horde of locusts devouring everything in its path, the unchecked plague of violence ruins lives, blocks the road out of poverty, and undercuts development. How has this plague of violence grown so ferocious? In one of the most remarkable social disasters of the last half century, basic public justice systems in the developing world have descended into a state of utter collapse, and there's nothing shielding the poor from violent people.

Gary A. Haugen and Victor Boutros offer a searing account of how we got here and what it will take to end the plague. The Locust Effect is a gripping journey into the streets and slums where fear is a daily reality for billions of the world's

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