TY  - GEN
AB  - It has become common to state that criminal violence has superseded political violence in
Central America. This paper presents the first results of a research project which analyses
the social construction of violent realities in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua. The
authors describe the print media landscape in Central America and examine both the quality
of leading newspapers and the main clusters of topics constituting the news discourse
on violence. The analysis of the macro-structure of topic management in Central American
newspapers allows to differentiate the “talk of crime”: it is more heterogeneous than often
thought. There are signs that the problem of juvenile delinquency is emerging as the center
of a cross-country discourse on “ordinary violence”. On the other hand, the talk of
crime is centered around few topic clusters, with sexual violence and border-related discourse
on violence being of key importance. Finally, the paper points to a heterogeneous
array of discourse events that is connected to political developments and power-relations.
DA  - 2006
DO  - 10.2139/ssrn.977974
KW  - violence
KW  - discourse analysis
KW  - Central America
KW  - media
LA  - eng
PY  - 2006
SP  - 42-
TI  - Exploding Crime? Topic Management in Central American Newspapers
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-25275163
Y2  - 2024-11-22T05:39:21
ER  -