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

appearance causes fear, not security. In many African crisis countries the realization of better security forces appears to be an …Little attention has been paid to the factual effect of the state’s security forces on the security of African citizens …. Reports about security forces’ contribution to widespread insecurity are frequent: the protectors become violators and their …

concerning African immigration remains to be focused on security, the foreclosure of its external borders and prevention. Current …

fear for their life. Real or invented coup attempts, political assassinations, beatings of opposition leaders, the … distribution of death lists, etc. have a profoundly traumatizing and self-perpetuating effect. Purges, not least in the security … government tries to prevent reentry by all means. This contribution draws a dense picture of elite (in)security in three African …

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

This paper builds on institutional analysis to generate new conclusions about the economic viability of federalism. It … does so by suggesting that Weingast´s seminal model of marketpreserving federalism falls short of accounting for the poor …

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 …

Central America has the reputation of being a violent region with high crime rates, youth gangs, drug traffic, and … and crime. On the basis of essays written by secondary school students and interviews with citizens from all walks of life … in the three countries, the paper points out how elite arguments on violence and crime are translated into everyday life …

. The paper thus asks why violence and crime generate such huge fear in society. The thesis is that the Costa Rican national …Crime, violence, and insecurity are among the most important social topics in contemporary Costa Rica. These three … issues play a central role in the media, politics, and everyday life, and the impression has emerged that security has …

Terrorism and crime, particularly organised crime with its close links to terrorism, currently constitute the greatest … challenges to the domestic security of the Maghreb states Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Mauretania. Additional challenges have … culminated in the ousting of regimes. Terrorism and organised crime are, to varying extents, prevalent in all Maghreb states and …