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