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"Developing a spatial-territorial approach to crime and applying it to Honduras - a country that suffers one of the world's highest rates of crime - Lirio Gutiérrez Rivera makes a significant and high quality contribution to the literature on crime. This is a key case study with a useful and much-needed theoretical framework." - Mark Ungar, The City University of New York - Brooklyn College, USA
"This is the first in-depth study of the structure and culture of violence in Honduras. It emphasizes the origins and the influence of organized crime, focusing in particular on the maras, the youth gangs that are the 'family' of the marginalized youth. Written with ethnographic excellence, it also demonstrates the failures of the anti-mara public policies of the Central American countries deeply affected by youth violence." - Dirk Kruijt, Emeritus Professor, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
About the author
Lirio Gutiérrez Rivera is an Anthropologist and Political Scientist. She was Postdoctoral Researcher at the desigualdades Research Network and at the Center of Area Studies and was Adjunct Lecturer at the Institute for Latin American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
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Book Title: Territories of Violence
Book Subtitle: State, Marginal Youth, and Public Security in Honduras
Authors: Lirio Gutiérrez Rivera
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137027955
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Lirio Gutiérrez Rivera 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-02794-8Published: 24 May 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-43985-0Published: 24 May 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-02795-5Published: 21 May 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 163
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Crime and Society, Latin American Politics, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Terrorism and Political Violence, Latin American Culture, Political Science