Empresas transnacionais, violações de direitos humanos e violência estrutural na América Latina: um enfoque criminológico

• Autor(a) principal: Böhm, María Laura
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Insurgência
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/insurgencia/article/view/19722
• topic: Empresas transnacionais. Violações de direitos humanos. Enfoque criminológico. América Latina.; Transnational corporations. Human rights violations. Criminological approach. Latin American.

In Latin America, business activities by transnational corporationsare often closely related to human rights violations. These serious human rights violations may vary in nature; furthermore, they are often a direct or indirect result of legal and economic international policies and a direct or indirect cause of violence and insecurity at the national level. This paper explores the contexts in which human rights violations by transnational corporations occur. Three hypotheses guide the analysis of the impact of transnational economic policies and businesses as a cause for structural and visible violence. These hypotheses will be illustrated through three model cases from Chile, Ecuador and Brazil. Furthermore, the potential of criminological concepts to explain transnational criminogenic conditions will be discussed.