Crime and law enforcement are often entwined in a co-evolutionary process by which the actions of one prompt behavioral changes by the other that demand new strategies from the initial actor. While this dynamic is often recognized and anticipated by both law enforcement and criminal groups, it frequently yields perverse effects – unintended (and generally 
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Law Enforcement and Perverse Effects: The Evolution of the Central American Maras
By: Michael Lawrence | Monday, February 29th, 2016New Developments along Mexico’s Southern Border
By: Maureen Meyer et al | Friday, October 3rd, 2014Until this summer, very little attention was paid to the 714-mile border that Mexico shares with Guatemala and Belize. But an unprecedented increase in Central American migrant children crossing the US border, primarily in south Texas, changed that. Amid growing concern about the plight of these children and the capacity of US institutions to care
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