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 …

: the excluded elites are frequently tempted to use violence to come back into the "dining room" - and the excluding …

explores the methodological challenge of an alternative approach to Central American violence(s). How can we collect … qualitative data that help address the social construction of (in)security? The research project "Public Spaces and Violence in …-discourses on violence? Why is it crucial to keep a research diary? What is a "failed" or a "good" interview? This article argues …

In all Central American countries we witness a struggle to define, interpret and classify types of violence … moral panic and repressive criminal policies are not direct consequences of the violence phenomena per se. Rather, the … perception of and the reactions to insecurity and violence are based on social discourses about these phenomena …