Politics and history of violence and crime in Central America

• Main Author: Huhn, Sebastian
• Other Authors: Warnecke-Berger, Hannes
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Palgrave Macmillan 2020
• Subjects: Political science; Violence > Central America; Crime > Central America; Comparative government; Crime > Sociological aspects; SOCIAL SCIENCE > General; Comparative government; Crime; Crime > Sociological aspects; Politics and government; Violence; P; 303.609728
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/81407
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

Contents: 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.