The Costa Rican talk of crime is fundamentally based on the assumption that crime rates have increased significantly in … recent years and that there is today a vast and alarming amount of crime. On the basis of this assumption, fear of crime, the … call for the “iron fist,” and drastic law enforcement actions are continually increasing. While crime statistics are the …

Crime, violence, and insecurity are perceived as society’s biggest problems in contemporary Costa Rica. This degree of … the fundamental basis for the current talk of crime: the civil war, the abolition of the military, the proclamation of …

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 …Central America has the reputation of being a violent region with high crime rates, youth gangs, drug traffic, and …

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 … changed for the worse and that society is now threatened permanently. However, crime statistics do not support this perception …

been transformed into a battleground for social violence — that is, on the belief that an alarming “crime wave” is …The Costa Rican talk of crime is fundamentally based on the assumption that a formerly explicitly nonviolent nation has … occurring today while there was no crime at all in the past. On the basis of this assumption, the fear of crime and the call for …

case in regards to the police force of the province of Buenos Aires. Here, I will demonstrate that the police have …

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 …

This paper studies the oil-violence link in the Niger Delta, systematically taking into consideration domestic and … international contextual factors. The case study, which focuses on explaining the increase in violence since the second half of the … the key contextual conditions responsible for violence, the results underline the basic relevance of cultural cleavages …

In Central America, legislation aiming to reduce violence and crime has become an important topic in the security … trade in and consumption of drugs on the one hand, and gender-related violence on the other. It shows how the content and …