Format:
Online-Ressource (xx, 279 p)
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ill
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0807857742
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0807830607
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9780807857748
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9780807830604
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-268) and index
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CONTENTS; PREFACE: Departure; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION: Thinking about Social Violence in Brazil; 1 Setting the Scene: Continuities and Discontinuities in a "Divided City"; 2 Network Approach to Criminal Politics; 3 Tubarão; 4 Santa Ana; 5 Vigário Geral; 6 Comparative Analysis of Criminal Networks in Brazil and Latin America; 7 Theorizing the Politics of Social Violence; EPILOGUE: Rio 2005; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780807830604
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro : Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security
Language:
English
