It has become common to state that youth gangs and organized crime have seized Central America. For theories on … contemporary Central American violence, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua present important test cases, demonstrating the need … the mara paradigm, the perception of grand corruption, and gender-based violence tied to cross-national, national or sub …

In Central America, legislation aiming to reduce violence and crime has become an important topic in the security … debate. Focusing on Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, this paper analyzes laws and other legal texts regarding the …, drug users, or foreign nationals. The legal texts in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua reflect both the hegemonic and …

The paper analyzes the social construction of youth violence in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and El Salvador on the one hand … protect citizens against that threat. In Nicaragua and Costa Rica, where the social discourse on youth violence is less …In diesem Beitrag wird einerseits die soziale Konstruktion von Jugendgewalt in Nicaragua, Costa Rica und El Salvador …

It has become common to state that youth gangs and organized crime have seized Central America. For theories on … contemporary Central American violence, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua present important test cases, demonstrating the need … the mara paradigm, the perception of grand corruption, and gender-based violence tied to cross-national, national or sub …

The paper analyzes the social construction of youth violence in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and El Salvador on the one hand … protect citizens against that threat. In Nicaragua and Costa Rica, where the social discourse on youth violence is less …