Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.