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"These studies, in an original and comparative framework, offer creative and inspiring approaches to understanding youth violence, opening the way for new perspectives to address the needs and rights of the youth in Latin America and all over the world." - Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Independent Expert of the UN Secretary-General for the global study on violence against children and Author of the World Report on Violence against Children (2006)
"This ground-breaking volume on youth violence in Latin America is holistic and balanced in scope, and contributes definitively to a complex and often contentious debate. It is highly recommended for researchers and policy makers alike." - Caroline Moser, Professor of Urban Development, Global Urban Research Centre, University of Manchester, UK
"This collection offers a timely and path-breaking perspective on one of the most contested issues in Latin America today: crime, violence, and insecurity . . .Highly accessible and very readable, this work brings much needed nuance and perspective into the debate on youth violence, gang life, and interventions aimed at dealing with or solving this problem." - Kees Koonings, Associate Professor of Development Studies and Latin American Studies, Utrecht University - The Netherlands
About the authors
DENNIS RODGERS is Senior Research Fellow in the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester, UK, and Visiting Senior Fellow with the Crisis States Research Centre at the London School of Economics. He is a social anthropologist by training, and works on issues of urban development issues in Nicaragua and Argentina. He has carried out extensive participant observation fieldwork on youth gang violence in a Managua slum, as well as organizational ethnography within both municipal government and social movements in Buenos Aires, both of which have resulted in a range of articles and book chapters. He is currently completing a monograph provisionally entitled Gang Rule: Violence and Social Order in Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Youth Violence in Latin America
Book Subtitle: Gangs and Juvenile Justice in Perspective
Editors: Gareth A. Jones, Dennis Rodgers
Series Title: Studies of the Americas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101333
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10133-3Published: 26 October 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 234
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Urban Studies/Sociology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Latin American Culture, Childhood, Adolescence and Society