Politics and History of Violence and Crime in Central America

PrologueVictor Hugo Acuña Ortega

1. The Enigma of Violent Realities in Central America: Towards a Historical PerspectiveSebastian Huhn and Hannes Warnecke-Berger
2. How to Explain and How Not to Explain Contemporary Criminal Violence in Central AmericaHeidrun Zinecker

3. Of pandillas, pirucas, and Pablo Escobar in the barrio: Historical change and continuity in patterns of Nicaraguan gang violenceDennis Rodgers

4. Memories of Violence in the Salvadoran Civil War: Comparing the Memoirs of Civilian Elites and Former Military OfficersErik Ching
5. Questioning the Crime Wave: On the Rise of Punitive Populism in Central America since the 1950sSebastian Huhn
6. The Salvadoran Armed Left and Revolutionary Violence (1970 - 1980)Alberto Martín Álvarez and Eudald Cortina OreroThe Violence of Dispossession: Guatemala in the 19th and 20th CenturiesJim Handy

7. On Collective Violence in 19th-Century GuatemalaMichael Riekenberg

8. Borderlands and Public Violence in a Shadow Polity: Costa Ricans, Nicaraguans and the Legacy of the Central American FederationRobert H. Holden

9. Forms of Violence in Past and Present: El Salvador and Belize in Comparative PerspectiveHannes Warnecke-Berger
10. The Violence of Dispossession: Guatemala in the 19th and 20th CenturiesJim Handy