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Author Arias, Enrique Desmond.

Title Drugs & democracy in Rio de Janeiro : trafficking, social networks, & public security / Enrique Desmond Arias
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 279 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: thinking about social violence in Brazil -- Setting the scene: continuities and discontinuities in a "divided city" -- Network approach to criminal politics -- Tubarão -- Santa Ana -- Vigário Geral -- Comparative analysis of criminal networks in Brazil and Latin America -- Theorizing the politics of social violence -- Epilogue: Rio 2005
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-268) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Violence -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
Slums -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
Crime -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
Drug traffic -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
Police corruption -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
Community organization -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
TRUE CRIME -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Policy.
Community organization
Crime
Drug traffic
Police corruption
Slums
Violence
Geweld.
Drugshandel.
Corruptie.
Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780807877371
0807877379
9781469605135
1469605139
Other Titles Drugs and democracy in Rio de Janeiro