Mano Dura: The Politics of Gang Control in El Salvador

Author/Contributor(s):	Wolf, Sonja
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Date:	01/31/2017
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

A preeminent authority on El Salvador's street gangs reports on three nongovernmental organizations that, advocating for human rights, have attempted to reform the country's gang policy-only to be stifled by sweeping, politically popular Mano Dura (Iron Fist) laws.