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| Title: | | Construyendo inseguridades: Aproximaciones a la violencia en Centroamérica desde el análisis del discurso  |
| Authors: | | Huhn, Sebastian Oettler, Anika Peetz, Peter |
| Issue Date: | | 2006 |
| Series/Report no.: | | GIGA working papers 34 |
| Abstract: | | In all Central American countries we witness a struggle to define, interpret and classify types of violence, delinquency, crime and (in)security. Although this struggle has highly relevant political and social implications, it has not been analyzed systematically. This article evaluates the state of the art and, based on methodological considerations, emphasizes the contribution of qualitative research on the local level in contrast to quantitative studies on the national or regional level. In a second step, using the discourse on Central American youth gangs as an example, the authors show that moral panic and repressive criminal policies are not direct consequences of the violence phenomena per se. Rather, the perception of and the reactions to insecurity and violence are based on social discourses about these phenomena. |
| Subjects: | | Central America violence delinquency insecurity discourse analysis |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des GIGA GIGA Working Papers
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