The ambivalent state : police-criminal collusion at the urban margins / Javier Auyero and Katherine Sobering.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auyero, Javier, author.

Sobering, Katherine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal justice, Administration of--Argentina.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Marginality, Social.

Police corruption.

Argentina.

Police--Argentina.

Police.

Police corruption--Argentina.

Marginality, Social--Argentina.

Physical Description:

xi, 226 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"Over the last few decades, debates about policing in poor urban areas have shifted analysing the state's neglect and abandonment to documenting its harsh interventions and punishing presence. Most of this research has focused on the overt actions and inactions. Yet we know very little about the covert world of state action that is hidden from public view. The Ambivalent State offers an unprecedented look into the clandestine relationships between cops and drug dealers in Argentina. Drawing on a unique combination of ethnographic research and documentary evidence, including hundreds of pages of wiretapped phone conversations, sociologists Javier Auyero and Katherine Sobering analyse the inner-workings of "police-criminal collusion" and its connections to drug markets and the depacification of daily life. Through rich descriptions of the actual clandestine interactions between drug dealers and police, they argue that an up-close examination of covert state action exposes the workings of an "ambivalent state": one that enforces the rule of law while at the same time and in the same place functions as a partner to what it defines as criminal behaviour. The Ambivalent State develops a political sociology of violence that focuses not only on takes place in police stations, criminal courts, and poor neighbourhoods, but also the clandestine actions and interactions of police agents, judges, and politicians that structure daily life at the urban margins. By way of empirical demonstration, the book makes an urgent call for scholars to incorporate clandestine action into explanations of the state. Collusion, policing, the state, crime, violence, urban marginality, legal cynicism, Argentina, ethnography"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

CLANDESTINE RELATIONS MATTER

CHAPTER TWO: DRUG VIOLENCE IN THE STREETS AND AT HOME

CHAPTER THREE: COLLUSION AND LEGAL CYNICISM

CHAPTER FOUR: ESTABLISHING THE "ARREGLO"

CHAPTER FIVE: COMPETITION, RETALIATION, AND VIOLENCE

CHAPTER SIX: PATCHWORKS OF PROTECTION

CHAPTER SEVEN: UNPACKING COLLUSION

CONCLUSIONS

REFERENCES.

ISBN:

9780190915537

0190915536

9780190915544

0190915544

OCLC:

1097314098