The paper analyzes the social construction of youth violence in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and El Salvador on the one hand … constructing youth violence and juvenile delinquency. Also, each country has its own manner of reaction to those problems. In El … protect citizens against that threat. In Nicaragua and Costa Rica, where the social discourse on youth violence is less …

impact of reducing the extraordinary levels of violence in the country. The hypothesis put forward is that the EU’s approach … to the issue of violence has been unsuccessful because it does not match the complexity of the problem encountered. As an … violence. It shows that violence is one of the results of an incoherent process of self‐organisation which marks Honduras and …

market ; oligopoly of violence ; international intervention ; disarmament …

: the excluded elites are frequently tempted to use violence to come back into the "dining room" - and the excluding … Säuberungen produzieren Kosten: ausgeschlossene Eliten sind oft geneigt, Gewalt anzuwenden, um ins "Speisezimmer" zurückzugelangen …

auch niedrigschwellige Gewalt gefördert; dies vor allem über sozioökonomische Kausalmechanismen (Verfall der Erdölpreise … Delegitimierung der politischen Elite geführt. Ein weiterer zentraler Befund ist, dass der konkrete Einfluss des Erdöls auf Gewalt je … nach spezifischer Form der Gewalt deutlich zu variieren scheint. (GIGA) …

This paper analyzes the role of religion with regard to the violence experienced during the past 20 years in Côte d …'Ivoire. It seeks to explain the differences in the level of violence over time by focusing on religion as an identity marker and … reaction to the violence and politicization, the religious elites founded an interreligious organization in the 1990s, and were …

contemporary Central American violence, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua present important test cases, demonstrating the need … to differentiate the diagnosis. First, national discourses on violence differ from country to country, with varying … the mara paradigm, the perception of grand corruption, and gender-based violence tied to cross-national, national or sub …

argumentation, these crime statistics do not provide evidence of the oft-proclaimed rising crime wave. -- Costa Rica ; violence …Der costaricanische öffentliche Diskurs über Gewalt und Kriminalität stützt sich wesent-lich auf die Prämisse, dass die … historische Entwicklung und ihren Gebrauch im Diskurs über Gewalt und Kriminalität in Costa Rica anhand kriminologischer Theorie …

social segregation. Focusing on Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, the paper analyzes the social perception of violence … in the three countries, the paper points out how elite arguments on violence and crime are translated into everyday life … hegemonic discourses on violence and crime in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Simultaneously, a majority of the …