Dr. Williams Gilberto Jiménez-García is a Colombian researcher and policy expert specializing in security governance, organized crime, and drug trafficking dynamics. His work integrates criminological theory, spatial analysis, and public policy design to understand violence and institutional responses across Latin America and Europe. With over a decade of academic and governmental experience, his research has focused on developing evidence-based frameworks for understanding criminal markets, territorial governance, and multidimensional indicators for public safety. Jiménez-García’s approach combines quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the spatial dependence of violence, social disorganization, and institutional vulnerability, contributing to both theoretical and applied criminology. His findings have informed innovative public policies and national observatories on crime and security. His scholarly productivity includes more than twenty peer-reviewed publications in high-impact international journals, books, and policy reports. His academic influence is reflected in Scopus with 27 citations across 8 indexed documents and an h-index of 4, while his Google Scholar profile shows 197 citations, an h-index of 8, and an i10-index of 6, evidencing his growing international research visibility.
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Jiménez-García, W. G. (2025). Why are some drug markets more violent than others? An analysis of violence using fuzzy logic. Social Sciences.
Jiménez-García, W. G. (2025). Espacios de crimen: homicidios, drogas y dependencia espacial en tres ciudades latinoamericanas. Revista Criminalidad.
Jiménez-García, W. G. (2025). Violencia criminal, sociedad y estado: tendencias delictivas y políticas públicas de seguridad. Editorial Atelier.
Jiménez-García, W. G. (2023). Violent drug markets: relation between homicide, drug trafficking and socioeconomic disadvantages. Social Sciences.
Jiménez-García, W. G. (2023). Comprensión del homicidio en las ciudades capitales colombianas: un estudio de vulnerabilidad. Latin American Research Review.