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Moral reasoning about gang violence in context: A comparative study with children and adolescents exposed to maras in Honduras and not exposed in Nicaragua

Child Development, Volume 95, Issue 1, Page e1-e20, January/February 2024.
Abstract This study examined how youth morally deliberate about conditions of gang violence shaping their communities. Participants (N = 80; 10–11 and 14–15 years; 50% female) exposed to gangs (maras) in Honduras and not exposed to maras in Nicaragua evaluated hypothetical situations of physical harm in contexts of chronic gang violence.
Franklin Moreno
wiley   +1 more source

From Drug War to Culture War: Russia’s Growing Role in the Global Drug Debate [PDF]

, 2014
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Marshall, Alexander
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Challenges of the Researcher Based on Fieldwork About ‘Buchonas’

Social Sciences
This article aims to reflect on the digital ethnography (cyberethnography or netnography) and visual ethnography (using images and videos) focused on the figure of the buchona, which is situated within the context of the narcoculture in northern Mexico ...
Arturo Chacon Castañon
doaj   +1 more source

Criminal Insurgencies in Mexico: Web and Social Media Resources [PDF]

, 2011
The authors of this piece, individually, collectively, and in cooperation with other scholars and analysts, have written about the criminal insurgencies in Mexico and various themes related to them in Small Wars Journal and in many other publications for
Bunker, Robert J., Sullivan, John P.
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New Standards of Justice: Uncovering Motivations for Mexico’s Recent Judicial Reforms amid a Security Crisis [PDF]

, 2009
From the introduction: Mexico is in a state of siege. In recent years, organized crime and drug-related violence have escalated dramatically, taking innocent lives and leaving the country mired in bloodshed.
Mohr, Kindra
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Order first, justice later’: emergency criminal policy as a path towards development. The Colombian Case

Sortuz, 2015
During the last decade, the governments of different countries in Western Europe and America have adopted emergency criminal policies to combat criminal phenomena which they regard as particularly dangerous (such as terrorism and narcotrafficking), for ...
Manuel Iturralde
doaj  

Political participation and war in Colombia [PDF]

, 2003
This study analyses the impact of the war on political participation in the March 2002 elections to the lower house of the Colombian Congress. The specific research question is whether the dynamics of violence in Colombia has affected the way voters ...
García, Miguel, Hoskin, Gary
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Narconarrativas de compensaciones ficcionales (y condenas neoliberales) : Trabajos del Reino, de Jury Herrera; Perra brava, de Orfa Alarcón [PDF]

, 2016
La irrupción del tema del narcotráfico en la narrativa contemporánea latinoamericana nos enfrenta tanto al revanchismo compensatorio social buscado a través de algunas representaciones simbólicas, como a las condenas impuestas por la economía neoliberal ...
López-Badano, Cecilia Ma. Teresa, Ruíz Tresgallos, Silvia   +1 more
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The ‘National Security Strategy of the USA’ and Brazilian military thought: Imagining the near future [PDF]

, 2007
This paper examines the US National Security Strategies, 2002 and 2006, with a view to understanding the impact that some of their elements, including the doctrine of pre-emptive war, may have on Brazilian military thought.
Zirker, Daniel
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Democracy and violence in Colombia during the Barco administration (1986-1990) [PDF]

With its longstanding democratic institutions and high levels of contemporary violence, Colombia represents an anomaly within Latin America. Using a contemporary historical approach, this article examines the administration of President Virgilio Barco ...
Benedict Hayes
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