Language:
English
Pages:
26 S.
,
Ill.
Series Statement:
GIGA Working Papers 84
Keywords:
Costa Rica Gewalt
;
Kriminalität
;
Identität
;
Meinung, öffentliche
Abstract:
Crime, violence, and insecurity are among the most important social topics in contemporary Costa Rica. These three issues play a central role in the media, politics, and everyday life, and the impression has emerged that security has changed for the worse and that society is now threatened permanently. However, crime statistics do not support this perception. The paper thus asks why violence and crime generate such huge fear in society. The thesis is that the Costa Rican national identitywith Costa Rica constructed as a nonviolent nationimpedes a realistic discussion about the phenomena and their causes, and simultaneously provides a platform for sensationalism and the social construction of fear.
Note:
Zsfassung in dt. Sprache
URL:
https://www.giga-hamburg.de/de/system/files/publications/wp84_huhn.pdf
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