Wim Savenije

Wim Savenije is researcher and lecturer in the department of Social and Political Anthropology at FLACSO, Argentina. His areas of interest are violent youth groups and the transnational street gangs or ‘maras’ in Central America, the relationship between the security forces and communities with high levels of insecurity, the dynamic relation between marginalization, social exclusion and the incidence of violence, and the possibility of employing social prevention strategies to diminish violence and delinquency at neighbourhood level.