The Stanford International Crime and Violence Lab is a network of scholars dedicated to understanding and finding solutions to the ongoing problems of violence, weak rule of law, citizen victimization, and organized crime mainly in the Western hemisphere, and invariably the rest of the world. The collaboration is designed to foment discussions and partnerships, and to disseminate ideas and projects to the larger community of scholars and policy makers. 

Stanford International Crime and Violence Lab’s success extends form its ability to bring together an interdisciplinary group of academicians from political science, economics, law and public policy, and combine that with public sector government and military personnel, as well as NGO’s and journalist involved on the ground.

Stanford International Crime and Violence Lab is based at Stanford University and is spearheaded by Professor Beatriz Magaloni, director of the Program on Poverty and Governance at the Stanford Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, and Professor Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. 

Visit http://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/crimelab

Updated: March 2014