became young adults in the decades of the eighties and nineties, the same years in which homicide rates reached historical … homicide rates be attributed to demographic change? Cohort-level data on population and homicide victims is used to explore two … mechanisms through which population forces could affect homicide rates; these mechanisms are composition effect and age …

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. …