Youth violence in Latin America : gangs and juvenile justice in perspective /
Jones, Gareth A.
Rodgers, Dennis.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface: Wagner's testimony -- Youth Violence in Latin America: an overview and agenda for research / Dennis Rodgers and Gareth A. Jones -- Living in the Shadow of Death: Gangs, Violence, and Social Order in urban Nicaragua, 1996-2002 / Dennis Rodgers -- Security at Stake: Dealing with Violence and Public (In)security in a Popular Neighborhood in Guadalajara, Mexico / Monique Sonnevelt -- Good Times and Bad Blood: Violence, Solidarity and Social Organization on Dominican Streets / Jon Wolseth -- "Gaining Respect": The Logic of Violence among Young Men in the Barrios of Caracas, Venezuela / Verónica Zubillaga -- Piloting Experimental Methods in Youth Gang Research: A Camping Expedition with Rival Manchas in Ayacucho, Peru / Cordula Strocka -- The Dilemmas of Politically Sensitive Medicalized Approaches to Reducing Youth Violence in Pelotas, Brazil / Dominique P. Béhague -- Understanding the Logic of Nicaraguan Juvenile Justice / José Luis Rocha Gómez -- Deadly Symbiosis? The PCC, the State, and the Institutionalization of violence in São Paulo, Brazil / Graham Denyer Willis -- Mean Streets: Youth, Violence and Daily Life in Mexico City / Héctor Castillo Berthier and Gareth A Jones -- Policing Youth in Latin America--Mark Ungar.
Juvenile delinquency
Violent crimes
Gangs
Juvenile justice, Administration of