Overview: Latin America exceptionalism? -- Understanding high crime rates in Latin America: the role of social and policy factors Rodrigo R. Soares and Joana Naritomi ; comentarios: Alejandro Gaviria -- The economics of crime meets Latin America. Capital crimes: kidnappings and corporate investment in Colombia Rony Pshisva and Gustavo A. Suarez ; comentarios: Juan Pantano -- The cost of avoiding crime: the case of Bogotá Alejandro Gaviria ... [et al.] ; comentario: Alfredo Canavese -- Do conflicts create poverty traps? asset losses and recovery for displaced households in Colombia Ana María Ibáñez and Andrés Moya ; comentarios: Martín González Rozada -- Crime distribution and victim behavior during a crime wave Rafael Di Tella, Sebastián Galiani, and Ernesto Schargrodsky ; comment: Lucas Ronconi -- Assessing Sáo Paulo*s large drop in homicides: the role of demography and policy interventions Joáo M P de Mello and Alexandre Schneider ; comentario: Lucas Llach -- The quality of life in prisons: do educational programs reduce in-prison conflicts? María Laura Alzúa, Catherine Rodriguez, and Edgar Villa ; comentarios: Andrés Borenstein -- International evidence. What do economists know about crime? Angela K. Dills, Jeffrey A. Miron, and Garrett Summers ; comment: Philip J. Cook -- Peaceable kingdoms and war zones: preemption, ballistics, and murder in Newark Brendan O'Flaherty and Rajiv Sethi ; comment: Guillermo Cruces -- Crime displacement and police interventions: evidence from London's "operation theseus" Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin, and Robert Witt ; comment: Catherine Rodriguez -- The impact of incentives on human behavior: can we make it disappear? the case of the death penalty Naci Mocan and Kaj Gittings ; comentarios: Lucía Quesada -- Does arrest deter violence? comparing experimental and nonexperimental evidence on mandatory arrest laws Radha Iyengar ; comment: Rafael Di Tella.