Politics and history of violence and crime in Central America. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sebastian Huhn ; Hannes Warnecke-Berger.
• Other Names: Huhn, Sebastian, 1974-; Warnecke-Berger, Hannes
• 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (344 pages)
• Subjects: 303.609728; 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; Political Science and International Relations; Latin American Politics; Crime and Society; Terrorism and Political Violence; Political History; Comparative Politics; Social Science -- Criminology; Political Science -- Political Freedom & Security -- Terrorism; Political Science -- History & Theory; Political Science -- General; Crime & criminology; Terrorism, armed struggle; Political science & theory; Comparative politics; Terrorism; World politics; Comparative politics; Politics & government; Central America -- Politics and government; Central America; Electronic books; Electronic book
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781349950676
• Related ISBNs: 134995067X; 1349950661; 9781349950669
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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