Through participatory research and creative auto/biography, in particular, this article
highlights how young offenders in southwestern Colombia live at home, go to school and fit …

Colombia's 'transition to peace'faces various challenges. One is the activity of drug-related
criminal organisations, which use adolescents to carry out low-level tasks. Based on 18 …

The article's objective is to understand the youth experiences, assessment, and meaning
construction of drug trafficking. The fieldwork was carried out in 2018 and 2019 in Culiacán …

At least one fact about Colombia is well known; Colombia exports drugs. Most people know
two things and two things only about this South American country; it produces coffee and …

Cocaine consuming patterns are changing among young drug users who live in “The Villa,”
a shantytown located in Greater Buenos Aires. After years of drug injection dominance …

Children in Colombia have engaged in chronic warfare since before the country's
foundation. However, current policy and intervention models targeting war-affected children …

Counter-drug trafficking initiatives have furthered the levels of policing, surveillance and
violence experienced by vast sectors of the population–and in particular, those experiencing …

This article explores the dynamics of the youth gang (pandilla) phenomenon in
contemporary urban Nicaragua, drawing on longitudinal ethnographic research conducted …

Gangs are not a new phenomenon in Central America. Rather, in their earliest forms, they
were often structured as youth organisations. In the case of El Salvador, some studies place …

Cape Verdean prison population raised 100% in the last ten years: in this paper I offer an
interpretation of this disturbing figure, addressing the issue of young offenders and children …