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In urban Honduras, gun violence and assault form the pulsing backdrop of everyday life. This book examines the ways that young men and women in working-class neighborhoods of El Progreso, Honduras, understand and respond to gang and gun violence in their communities. Because residents rely on gangs and Catholic and Evangelical Protestant churches to mediate violence in their neighborhoods, these institutions form the fabric of society. While only a small fraction of youths in a neighborhood are
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- Author
- Wolseth, Jon(Author)
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780816501243
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Gender Studies, Science, Social Sciences
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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