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 …

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 …

consequences and mechanisms of forced slow-onset displacement and focuses on the interactions between "violence," "food security …

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 …

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 …

It has become common to state that criminal violence has superseded political violence in Central America.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 …

been transformed into a battleground for social violence - that is, on the belief that an alarming 'crime wave' is …