The repressive management of the violence in the year 2015 in El Salvador

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  • Nohel M. Reyes Universidad del Estado del Amazonas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5377/ryr.v0i47.6279

Keywords:

Repressive management, excessive force, criminal violence, public organizations, gangs.

Abstract

The year 2015 meant for El Salvador an intentional homicide rate of 103 per 100,000 inhabitants, positioning it has the most violent country in Latin American. In this context, the objective of the present article is to analyze the strategy of repression implemented by the public organizations to fight the criminal violence. For this, it was done a lifting of qualitative and quantitate data trough secondary resources, in which stands ups the work of research journalism. Identifying that the agencies committed by the Salvadorian Executive, as well as two central organizations inside the penal justice system, the Sala de lo Constitucional of the Corte Suprema de Justicia and the Policía Nacional Civil, appear to aim in the same strategy.

Reality and Reflection Year 18, No 47, January-June 2018; pp.92-107

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Author Biography

Nohel M. Reyes, Universidad del Estado del Amazonas

Licenciado en Relaciones Internacionales por la Universidad Francisco Gavidia. Estudios sobre Gobierno e Historia de los EEUU por la Universidad de Arizona. Estudiante del Máster en Seguridad Pública, Ciudadanía y DDHH por la Universidad del Estado del Amazonas.

Published

2018-06-30

How to Cite

Reyes, N. M. (2018). The repressive management of the violence in the year 2015 in El Salvador. Reality and Reflection, (47), 92–107. https://doi.org/10.5377/ryr.v0i47.6279

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