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Sharing this walk : an ethnography of prison life and the PCC in Brazil / Karina Biondi ; edited and translated by John F. Collins.
Van Pelt Library HV6453.B63 P7313 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Biondi, Karina, author.
- Series:
- Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
- Latin America in translation / en traducción / em tradução
- Standardized Title:
- Junto e misturado. English
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Primeiro Comando da Capital.
- Prison gangs--Brazil--São Paulo (State).
- Prison gangs.
- Organized crime--Brazil--São Paulo (State).
- Organized crime.
- Prisons--Brazil--São Paulo (State)--Social conditions.
- Prisons.
- Prisoners--Brazil--São Paulo (State)--Social conditions.
- Prisoners.
- Social conditions.
- Brazil--São Paulo (State).
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 194 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- "The Primeiro Comando do Capital (PCC) is a São Paulo prison gang that since the 1990s has expanded into the most powerful criminal network in Brazil. ... During the period of Biondi's ... visits ... and her extensive fieldwork in prisons and on the streets of São Paulo, the PCC effectively controlled more than ninety percent of São Paulo's 147 prison facilities"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Portuguese.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469630304
- 1469630303
- 9781469623405
- 1469623404
- OCLC:
- 945745459
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