In recent years, crime rates have been rising in a number of key countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). At the same time, governments have had to limit spending on security because of the pressure to follow fiscal austerity programmes. There is therefore a temptation to link the two and conclude that crime is going up because spending on preventing crime is going down. But a recent report and analysts’ comments suggest it is not that simple: how the money is spent may be as important as the total amount that gets spent.End of preview - This article contains approximately 1970 words.
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