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Drugs & democracy in Rio de Janeiro : trafficking, social networks, & public security / Enrique Desmond Arias.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arias, Enrique Desmond.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violence--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
- Violence.
- Slums--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
- Slums.
- Crime--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
- Crime.
- Drug traffic--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
- Drug traffic.
- Police corruption--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
- Police corruption.
- Community organization--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
- Community organization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (302 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Drugs and democracy in Rio de Janeiro
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Taking an ethnographic approach to understanding urban violence, this work examines the problems of crime and police corruption that have led to widespread misery and human rights violations in many of Latin America's new democracies. It argues that public policy change is not enough to stop the vicious cycle of crime and corruption.
- Contents:
- Introduction: thinking about social violence in Brazil
- Setting the scene: continuities and discontinuities in a "divided city"
- Network approach to criminal politics
- Tubarao
- Santa Ana
- Vigario Geral
- Comparative analysis of criminal networks in Brazil and Latin America
- Theorizing the politics of social violence
- Epilogue: Rio 2005.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-268) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469605135
- 1469605139
- 9780807877371
- 0807877379
- OCLC:
- 476268329
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