level of violence, an outlier among the oil countries as a whole. It applies a newly elaborated 'context approach' that … with a moderate increase in internal violence in Venezuela are subsequently analyzed, in the second part of the paper, from …, and corruption. On the other hand, oil has triggered violence-primarily through socioeconomic causal mechanisms (central …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Der costaricanische öffentliche Diskurs über Gewalt und Kriminalität stützt sich wesentlich auf die Prämisse, dass die … historische Entwicklung und ihren Gebrauch im Diskurs über Gewalt und Kriminalität in Costa Rica anhand kriminologischer Theorie …

Crime, violence, and insecurity are among the most important social topics in contemporary Costa Rica. These three …. The paper thus asks why violence and crime generate such huge fear in society. The thesis is that the Costa Rican national …Die Angst vor Gewalt, Kriminalität und Unsicherheit ist in Costa Rica eines der wichtigsten gesellschaftlichen Probleme …

It has become common to state that criminal violence has superseded political violence in Central America. This paper … leading newspapers and the main clusters of topics constituting the news discourse on violence. The analysis of the macro …-country discourse on 'ordinary violence'. On the other hand, the talk of crime is centered around few topic clusters, with sexual …

Crime, violence, and insecurity are perceived as society's biggest problems in contemporary Costa Rica. This degree of …Gewalt und Kriminalität werden in der costaricanischen Öffentlichkeit heute als die größte gesellschaftliche Bedrohung …

been transformed into a battleground for social violence - that is, on the belief that an alarming 'crime wave' is …Kultur der Angst und Kontrolle in Costa Rica (II): Der Diskurs über Gewalt und sozialer Wandel. Der costaricanische … öffentliche Diskurs über Gewalt und Kriminalität stützt sich vor allem auf die Prämisse, dass sich die ehemals gewaltlose Nation …