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 … the counter-discursive influences on each country's legal discourse. -- Central America ; violence ; drugs ; gender …

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 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 …

been transformed into a battleground for social violence - that is, on the belief that an alarming "crime wave" is … discourse. -- Costa Rica ; violence ; crime ; social order ; public discourse ; social change …The Costa Rican talk of crime is fundamentally based on the assumption that a formerly explicitly nonviolent nation has …