¿Hijos de la guerra o huérfanos del Estado? Un estudio sobre la violencia juvenil en las maras guatemaltecas, 1985-2011

Abstract

This study considers a broad characterization of the gang phenomenon in the Guatemalan context, examining the nature of its violence. In this sense, it analyzes youth violence and relates it to the structural and institutional problems of this country, considering the legacy of dictatorships and the armed conflict, as well as the construction of social reality carried out by the agents that reproduce the phenomenon. This work is aimed at all those academics, teachers and researchers, university students or anyone interested in fully understanding the problem of gangs and the intersecting difficulties of a political, economic and social nature that promote it and that allow its evolution.