Liberal Arts and Sciences
Rebecca Hanson Research Group
Led by Rebecca Hanson · Sociology and Criminology & Law
What we study
Dr. Rebecca Hanson studies how policies and violence affect state building, policing, and inequality in Latin America and the Global South. She uses ethnographic research, surveys, and comparative fieldwork to analyze these issues.
What working here is like
- Fieldwork
- Surveys & interviews
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 2
Current projects
Post-Conflict Security Structures and Citizen Buy-In
Comparative ethnographic and survey research on security groups in Latin America.
Challenges to Transitional Justice in Venezuela
Documenting how armed groups and state relations evolve in Venezuela.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Caiga Quien Caiga
2025 · Oxford University Press eBooks
Examines how Venezuela's government increased police power after a political shift.
- Policing the Revolution
2025
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How to reach out
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