Title Sharing this walk : an ethnography of prison life and the PCC in Brazil / Karina Biondi ; edited and translated by John F. Collins

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 194 pages) Series Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. Contents Foreword by Jorge Mattar Villela -- Introduction -- The PCC -- Politics and Pedagogy Inside the University -- The Politics of Immanence -- The Politics of Transcendence -- Conclusion -- Author's Afterword to the English-Language Edition Summary "The Primeiro Comando do Capital (PCC) is a São Paulo prison gang that since the 1990s has expanded into the most powerful criminal network in Brazil. ... During the period of Biondi's ... visits ... and her extensive fieldwork in prisons and on the streets of São Paulo, the PCC effectively controlled more than ninety percent of São Paulo's 147 prison facilities"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from pdf title page (Proquest, viewed September 28, 2020) Subject Primeiro Comando da Capital. SUBJECT Primeiro Comando da Capital fast Subject Prison gangs -- Brazil -- São Paulo (State) Organized crime -- Brazil -- São Paulo (State) Prisons -- Brazil -- São Paulo (State) -- Social conditions Prisoners -- Brazil -- São Paulo (State) -- Social conditions Social sciences. Social Sciences social sciences. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Organized crime Prison gangs Prisoners -- Social conditions Brazil -- São Paulo (State) Form Electronic book Author Collins, John F., editor, translator. Villela, Jorge Luiz Mattar. writer of foreward. LC no. 2016018926 ISBN 146963032X 9781469630328 9781469630311 1469630311

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