Brenneman, Robert. 2015. Wrestling the Devil: Conversion and Exit from Central American Gangs. Latin American Research Review 49(S): 112-128. Abstract: …
Gangs
O’Neill, “Secure the Soul”
O’Neill, Kevin Lewis. 2015. Secure the Soul: Christian Piety and Gang Prevention in Guatemala. Berkeley: University of California Press. Publisher’s …
Flores, “God’s Gangs”
Flores, Edward Orozco. 2013. God’s Gangs: Barrio Ministry, Masculinity, and Gang Recovery. New York: NYU Press. Release Date: December 11, …
Wolseth, Jon. 2011. Jesus and the Gang: Youth Violence and Christianity in Urban Honduras. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press
Reviewed by Henri Gooren (Oakland University). This fine ethnography begins with a murder. “They shot him, they shot El TĂtere. El TĂtere is dead”. Children are shouting and running; soon a crowd forms near the shirtless corpse of a young man who was “barely twenty”
O’Neill, “Left Behind”
O’Neill, Kevin. 2013. “Left Behind: Security, Salvation, and the Subject of Prevention.” Cultural Anthropology 28(2):204-226. Abstract: “In North Carolina, a faith-based …