Politics and history of violence and crime in Central America

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"This book highlights historical explanations to and roots of present phenomena of violence, insecurity, and law enforcement in Central America." --page 4 of cover

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Contributors: Huhn, Sebastian 1974- (Editor) ; Warnecke-Berger, Hannes 1983- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan [2017]
In:Year: 2017
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Keywords:
Violence > Central America
Crime > Central America
Comparative government
Crime > Sociological aspects
Criminal justice, Administration of > Central America
Crime
Violence
Central America
Central America > Domestic security > Violence > Criminality/delinquency > Causes > Social history
Central America > Politics and government
Aufsatzsammlung
Lateinamerika > Gewalt
Description
Summary:"This book highlights historical explanations to and roots of present phenomena of violence, insecurity, and law enforcement in Central America." --page 4 of cover
1. The enigma of violent realities in Central America : towards a historical perspective / Sebastian Huhn and Hannes Warnecke-Berger -- 2. How to explain and how not to explain contemporary criminal violence in Central America / Heidrun Zinecker -- 3. Of Pandillas, Pirucas, and Pablo Escobar in the Barrio / Dennis Rodgers -- 4. Memories of violence in the Salvadoran Civil War / Erik Ching -- 5. Questioning the crime wave / Sebastian Huhn -- 6. The Salvadoran armed left and revolutionary violence (1970-1980) / Alberto Martín Álvarez and Eudald Cortina Orero -- 7. On collective violence in nineteenth-century Guatemala / Michael Riekenberg -- 9. Borderlands and public violence in a shadow polity / Robert H. Holden -- 9. Forms of violence in past and present : El Salvador and Belize in comparative perspective / Hannes Warnecke-Berger -- 10. The violence of dispossession : Guatemala in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Jim Handy
Item Description:Literaturangaben
Verantwortlichkeitsangabe auf dem Umschlag lautet: edited by Sebastian Huhn and Hannes Warnecke-Berger
Physical Description:xix, 330 Seiten Diagramme
ISBN:9781349950669