This paper explores the meanings that youth crime and policing acquire in the context of their mediated representation on the televised news in Nicaragua. In particular, it explores this question by juxtaposing the televised imagery of the apprehended juvenile delinquent with the discursive treatment of his person by both police and reporters on Nicaragua's most watched news shows,Acción 10andCrónica TN8. The police are presented as heroic protagonists who serve and protect the barrio through ‘communitarian policing’ whilst the juvenile delinquent – the ‘pinta’ – is excluded and stigmatised. This turns such youths into socially expendable and ‘tainted, discounted’ outsiders who can be treated as such. In this way, through the news,pintasare targeted for ‘removal’ from the barrio, and their mediated arrests become ‘spectacular performances’ of community. A discrepancy appears, then, between the police's communitarian discourse and its reactionary practice.

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“巴里奥的恐怖和祸害”：尼加拉瓜电视新闻对青少年犯罪和警务的表现

本文探讨了青年犯罪和警务在尼加拉瓜电视新闻中的中介代表背景下获得的意义。特别是，它通过将被逮捕的少年犯的电视图像与尼加拉瓜收视率最高的新闻节目中警察和记者对他的言辞对待的方式并列来探讨这个问题，行动 10和克罗尼卡 TN8. 警察被描绘成英勇的主角，他们通过“社区治安”服务和保护街区，而少年犯——“品塔'——被排斥和污名化。这将这些年轻人变成了可以被这样对待的社会消耗品和“受污染、贬低”的局外人。这样，通过新闻，品塔酒他们的目标是从街区“驱逐”，他们的调解逮捕成为社区的“壮观表演”。因此，警察的社群主义话语与其反动实践之间出现了差异。