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Author Biondi, Karina, author.

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

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover ; Contents; Note from the Editor-Translator; Foreword by Jorge Mattar Villela; Introduction; Chapter One. The PCC ; Chapter Two. Politics and Pedagogy: Inside the University ; Chapter Three. The Politics of Immanence ; Chapter Four. The Politics of Transcendence ; Conclusion; Author's Afterword to the English-Language Edition; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C ; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.
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.
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Subject Primeiro Comando da Capital.
Primeiro Comando da Capital.
Prison gangs -- Brazil -- São Paulo (State)
Prison gangs.
Brazil -- São Paulo (State)
Organized crime -- Brazil -- São Paulo (State)
Organized crime.
Prisons -- Brazil -- São Paulo (State) -- Social conditions.
Prisons.
Social conditions.
Prisoners -- Brazil -- São Paulo (State) -- Social conditions.
Prisoners.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Junto e misturado. English
Other Form: Print version: 9781469630304 1469630303 (DLC) 2016018926 (OCoLC)945745459
ISBN 146963032X (electronic book)
9781469630328 (electronic book)
1469623404
1469630303
9781469630304 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9781469623405 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

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