Youth Violence in Latin America

1. Youth Violence in Latin America: An Overview and Agenda for Research
Dennis Rodgers, Gareth A. Jones

2. Living in the Shadow of Death: Gangs, Violence, and Social Order in Urban Nicaragua, 1996–2002
Dennis Rodgers

3. Security at Stake: Dealing with Violence and Public (In)Security in a Popular Neighborhood in Guadalajara, Mexico
Monique Sonnevelt

4. Good Times and Bad Blood: Violence, Solidarity, and Social Organization on Dominican Streets
Jon Wolseth

5. “Gaining Respect”: The Logic of Violence among Young Men in the Barrios of Caracas, Venezuela
Verónica Zubillaga

6. Piloting Experimental Methods in Youth Gang Research: A Camping Expedition with Rival Manchas in Ayacucho, Peru
Cordula Strocka

7. The Dilemmas of Politically Sensitive Medicalized Approaches to Reducing Youth Violence in Pelotas, Brazil
Dominique P. Béhague

8. Understanding the Logic of Nicaraguan Juvenile Justice
José Luis Rocha Gómez

9. Deadly Symbiosis? The PCC, the State, and the Institutionalization of Violence in São Paulo, Brazil
Graham Denyer Willis

10. Mean Streets: Youth, Violence, and Daily Life in Mexico City
Héctor Castillo Berthier, Gareth A. Jones

11. Policing Youth in Latin America
Mark Ungar

Keywords: Criminology and Criminal Justice, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Urban Studies/Sociology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Latin American Culture, Childhood, Adolescence and Society