Rebecca Hanson interviewed by New York Times on violence in Venezuela

June 4, 2021

Core faculty member Dr. Rebecca Hanson (Sociology, Criminology, and Law) is featured in the New York Times article “Bouncy Castles and Grenades: Gangs Erode Maduro’s Grip on Caracas,” published on May 30. Dr. Hanson, who recently published the article “From carceral punitivism to systematic killing: The necropolitics of policing in post-Chávez Venezuela,” shares expertise from her research on violence in Venezuela.

Read the article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/30/world/americas/venezuela-gang-maduro.html

Watch Impasses Políticos y los Caminos Hacia un Futuro Mejor en Venezuela: https://youtu.be/tYGS47dL7Tk