Gangs as Non-State Armed Groups: The Central American Case

Non-State Armed Groups

Fragile States: the Birthplace of Non-State Armed Groups in West Asia

Due to both internal and external factors, Western Asia has long been suffering from security problems and political instability. The institution of various military and militia groups in the region in the absence of powerful central governments is the focal point of the crises, where the internal and external factors meet. The development of such security and military interactions outside the ...

Central American Street Gangs: Their Role in Communities and Prisons

– Territories of Violence: State, Marginal Youth, and Public Security in Honduras, by Lirio Gutiérrez Rivera. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. – Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, by Deborah T. Levenson. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2013. – The Rule of Law in Central America: Citizens’ Reactions to Crime and Punishment, by Mary Fran T. Malone. New...

Gangs and Groups

Normal stage Group loyalties are, of course, a normal stage in development, during the later school years and in early adolescence. It seems to serve an important protective function for young people poised on the edge of adulthood, and having to cope with all the sexual and social problems it represents for them in an adult world which does not make these adjustments any too easy. It is not, i...

FINITE GROUPS WITH FIVE NON-CENTRAL CONJUGACY CLASSES

‎Let G be a finite group and Z(G) be the center of G‎. ‎For a subset A of G‎, ‎we define kG(A)‎, ‎the number of conjugacy classes of G that intersect A non-trivially‎. ‎In this paper‎, ‎we verify the structure of all finite groups G which satisfy the property kG(G-Z(G))=5, and classify them‎.