RT Book
T1 Mortal doubt: transnational gangs and social order in Guatemala City
T2 Atelier
JF Atelier
A1 Fontes, Anthony
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of California press
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/164541342X
AB "The fact and fear of crime dominate Guatemala City. In the midst of unprecedented levels of postwar violence, Guatemalans struggle to comprehend the myriad forces that have made life in this city so deeply insecure. Born out of histories of state terror, migration, and deportation, maras (or transnational gangs) have become the veritable face of this new era of violence. They are brutal organizations engaged in extortion, contract killings, and the drug trade, and yet they have also become essential to the making of a certain kind of social order. Based on years of fieldwork inside prisons, police precincts, and gang-dominated neighborhoods, Anthony W. Fontes demonstrates how gang violence has become indissoluble from contemporary social imaginaries, and how these gangs provide cover for a host of other criminal actors. Ethnographically rich and unflinchingly critical, Mortal Doubt illuminates the maras' role in making and mooring collective terror in Guatemala City and beyond"--Provided by publisher
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV6439.G92
SN 9780520297081
SN 0520297083
SN 9780520297098
SN 0520297091
K1 Gangs : Guatemala : Guatemala
K1 Violence : Guatemala : Guatemala
K1 Gangs
K1 Social Conditions
K1 Violence
K1 Gewalttätigkeit
K1 Kriminalität
K1 Organisiertes Verbrechen
K1 Innere Sicherheit
K1 Soziale Faktoren
K1 Social factors
K1 Guatemala (Guatemala) : Social conditions : Guatemala : Guatemala
K1 Guatemala