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This chapter explores the building of the popular argument ‘they deserve it’ and the reasons behind such a statement. It focuses on how social contexts shape social behaviour, citing the Stanford Prison Experiment in the United States and the extensive Argentinean’s dictatorship tradition as a predictor of an authoritarian mindset. It explores the relation between crime and culture and between crime and economic inequality, providing an overview of Latin America crime scene. It also provides a definition of zero-tolerance policies or ‘iron-fist’ policies.
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Fernandez Roich, C. (2017). They Deserve to Die. In: Media and Crime in Argentina. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95251-9_2
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