By Sebastian Huhn, Hannes Warnecke-Berger
This e-book highlights old factors to and roots of current phenomena of violence, lack of confidence, and legislation enforcement in crucial the USA. Violence and crime are one of the so much mentioned themes in relevant the United States this day, and sensationalism and worry of crime is as current because the elevate of non-public defense, the re-militarization of legislation enforcement, political populism, and mano dura regulations. The members to this quantity speak about historic types, paths, continuities, and alterations of violence and its public and political dialogue within the sector. This publication therefore deals in-depth research of other styles of violence, their replica through the years, their articulation within the current, and eventually their discursive mobilization.
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Availability of Weapons It is likewise problematic to link the availability of small arms and handguns to rising homicide rates. Weapons do not shoot themselves; weapons do need actors. Even if guns were prohibited, cut and thrust weapons would remain. Nobody would seriously argue that weapons alone cause violence. g. 34 And although Guatemala shows the highest rate of available weapons, it is only the third most violent country in the region. Drug Trade A remarkably simplified explanatory chain of explanations regarding violence is repeatedly constructed for Central America (and other regions as well).
25 With only Costa Rica as the counter-example, this difference would not be a puzzle. As Central America’s “Switzerland” and as a democratic welfare state, Costa Rica resembles Western European industrialized countries. The puzzling case is Nicaragua, as it is characterized by low levels of violence but shares many of the same structural features of its northern neighbors El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras (notably inequality, social exclusion, poverty and a violent past). Therefore, the case of Nicaragua is crucial for answering the question.
Castellanos, El Salvador, 1930–1960: Antecendentes Históricos de la Guerra Civil (San Salvador, El Salvador: Dirección de Publicaciones e Impresos, 2002). 15. James Dunkerley, The Pacification of Central America: Political Change in the Isthmus, 1987–1993 (London: Verso, 1994) and Cynthia J. , Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999). , Alberto Martín Álvarez, From Revolutionary War to Democratic Revolution: The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) in El Salvador (Berlin: Berghof- Stiftung für Konfliktforschung, 2010) and Heidrun Zinecker, El Salvador nach dem Bürgerkrieg.