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  • 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 identity—with Costa Rica constructed as a nonviolent nation—
    impedes a realistic discussion about the phenomena and their causes, and simultaneously
    provides a platform for sensationalism and the social construction of fear.
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