Dead-end lives : drugs and violence in the city shadows / Daniel Briggs and Ruben Monge Gamero.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Briggs, Daniel (Criminologist), author.

Monge Gamero, Rubén, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug abuse--Social aspects.

Drug abuse.

Inner cities--Spain--Madrid.

Inner cities.

Urban violence--Spain--Madrid.

Urban violence.

Drug abuse--Social aspects--Spain--Madrid.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 310 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2017.

Summary:

“Julia” nervously emerges from her shabby tent in the suburban wastelands on the outskirts of Madrid to face another day of survival in one of Europe’s most problematic ghettos: she is homeless, wanted by the police, and addicted to heroin and cocaine. She is also five months pregnant and rarely makes contact with support services. Welcome to the city shadows in Valdemingómez: a lawless landscape of drugs and violence where the third world meets the Wild West. Briggs and Monge entered this area with only their patience, some cigarettes and a mobile phone and collected vivid testimonies and images of Julia and others like her who live there. This important book documents what they found, locating these people's stories and situations in a political, economic and social context of spatial inequality and oppressive mechanisms of social control.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of photos, figures and tables

About the authors

Acknowledgements

Preface

Foreword

Glossary of terms

Introduction: Welcome to Valdemingómez

Politics, ‘democracy’ and the ideology of the postmodern city

Madrid: History, social processes and the growth in inequality

Drugs, cultural change and drug markets

Journeys to dependence

Life in the city shadows: Work, identity and social status

The council, police and health services: An impasse to solutions

Post dependency: What next?

Not really the conclusion

Epilogue

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781447341703

1447341708

OCLC:

1368054518