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12 septembre 2013
- doi: 10.4000/books.iheid.718
- isbn: 978-2-940503-34-6
- eisbn: 978-2-940503-35-3
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Antonia Does, « 2. The Central American gang phenomenon », Graduate Institute Publications, ID : 10.4000/books.iheid.718
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2.1. Differentiating between pandillas and marasYouth gangs have existed since the 1960s and 1970s in Central America. However, there are different types of Central American gangs and thus one has to distinguish between pandillas and maras. The former are localized, homegrown gangs, which are “direct inheritors” (Jütersonke, Rodgers & Muggah 2009: 379) of the gangs that have historically characterized Central American societies, while the latter are a more recent phenomenon with transnationa...