Making sense of central american maras gang research. The focus of this chapter is on the reintegration of youth gang members in honduras. Gangs, urban violence, and security interventions in. The aim of this qualitative research is to broaden the knowledge of reintegration processes and programs in one specific country in central america, namely, honduras. Youth violence and gangs are a critical concern in central america today. Pdf maras y pandillas en centroamerica investigacion. Request pdf are the maras overwhelming governments in central america violence in central america has grown so much in the last half decade that colombia is no longer the homicide capital of. Maras in central america national security implications of gang activity south of the border by col terry saltsman and ltc ben welch iii, small wars journal download interim version of article as pdf the strategic nature of conflict and violence, in addition to the definition of insurgent, is in a state of rapid change in both the defense and intelligence community. Bruneau strategic insights is a monthly electronic journal produced by the center for contemporary conflict at the naval postgraduate school in monterey, california. The current project is the result of a call for proposals on the links between youth violence, organized crime and insecurity.
Maras, an alternate name for kahramanmaras in turkey. Together, these three organisations count around 65,000 members, according to police records. Texto publicado originalmente en revista latice, suecia. At least once a week, older gang members, or mareros, come by every shop and. In examining how central american gangs, locally known as maras, evolved. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Gang violence and security in central america request pdf. Skinner free pdf d0wnl0ad, audio books, books to read, good books to read. Groups like ms and their rivals, barrio 18, have expanded across central america, as well as operating in mexico and the united states. That region is struggling to control burgeoning street gangs and organized criminal groups which have overrun its poor and illprepared security forces.
Gang violence and security in central america by thomas. There are more than 900 gangs or operating in central maras america today, with an estimated 70,000. This discussion report contains a preliminary analysis of the problem of youth violence and maras and pandillas in northern central america with a special focus on guatemala. Maras, iran disambiguation, places in iran maras, peru, a town in peru near cuzco. Maras and youth gangs, community and police in central america. Are the maras overwhelming governments in central america. The maras and national security in central america strategic insights, volume iv, issue 5 may 2005 by thomas c.
This region is bordered by mexico to the north, colombia to the southeast, the caribbean sea to the east and the pacific ocean to the west and south. Click download or read online button to get maras book now. Sensational headlines have publicized the drug trafficking, brutal violence, and other organized crime elements associated with central americas mara gangs. Maras, turkey, previous name until 1973 of kahramanmaras, a city in the mediterranean region, turkey and the administrative center of kahramanmaras province. Differentiating between pandillas and maras youth gangs have existed since the 1960s and 1970s in central america. To download a pdf version of this article, click here. Youth violence, organized crime and public insecurity.
It analyzes the responses of the state and society toward the problem of youth violence. In recent years the group has acquired a reputation for extreme brutality and has ostensibly mutated into a fastexpanding, transnational organized crime network with possible ties to. Refworld is the leading source of information necessary for taking quality decisions on refugee status. In honduras the murder rate 43,6 is 800 percent higher. Refworld contains a vast collection of reports relating to situations in countries of origin, policy documents and positions, and documents relating to international and national legal frameworks. Public authorities routinely seek to contain such violence through repression, as well as through its exportation to and containment at. Alarm over the spreading influence of central american maras is nothing new. Project muse promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. Most of the empirical research on central american street gangs, called maras. The following is a threat assessment of the seven countries that make up central america. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. In recent years, analysts have become concerned about the potential for their growth in. By jessica farber, research associate at the council on hemispheric affairs.
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