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Exploding Crime? Topic Management in Central American Newspapers

Authors: Sebastian Huhn; Anika Oettler; Peter Peetz;

Exploding Crime? Topic Management in Central American Newspapers

Abstract

It has become common to state that criminal violence has superseded political violence in Central America. This paper presents the first results of a research project which analyses the social construction of violent realities in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua. The authors describe the print media landscape in Central America and examine both the quality of leading newspapers and the main clusters of topics constituting the news discourse on violence. The analysis of the macro-structure of topic management in Central American newspapers allows to differentiate the “talk of crime”: it is more heterogeneous than often thought. There are signs that the problem of juvenile delinquency is emerging as the center of a cross-country discourse on “ordinary violence”. On the other hand, the talk of crime is centered around few topic clusters, with sexual violence and border-related discourse on violence being of key importance. Finally, the paper points to a heterogeneous array of discourse events that is connected to political developments and power-relations. Haufig wird darauf verwiesen, dass auf die politische Gewalt, die Zentralamerika in den 1970er/1980er Jahren erschutterte, eine Welle krimineller Gewalt folgte. Der vorliegende Beitrag prasentiert die ersten Resultate eines Forschungsprojektes, das die soziale Konstruktion violenter Realitaten in Costa Rica, El Salvador und Nicaragua analysiert. Dieser Beitrag konzentriert sich auf die Makro-Struktur des Topic Managements in fuhrenden zentralamerikanischen Tageszeitungen. Die zentralamerikanische Presselandschaft wird nach der Qualitat der Berichterstattung befragt. Mit der Herausarbeitung von den zentralen thematischen Clustern des Pressediskurses wird die gangige Vorstellung von einer „Explosion der Gewalt“ differenziert. Die Untersuchung zeigt, dass sich das Problem der Jugendkriminalitat als das Zentrum eines grenzuberschreitenden Gewaltdiskurses herauszubilden beginnt. Auf der anderen Seite stellen sowohl sexuelle Gewalt als auch nationale Grenzen zentrale Motive des Pressediskurses uber Gewalt dar. Der Pressediskurs wird ferner als ein heterogenes Feld von Diskursereignissen charakterisiert, das an politische Entwicklungen und Krafteverhaltnisse gekoppelt ist.

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violence, media, ddc:300, Central America, discourse analysis, Central America, violence, discourse analysis, media, 300

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