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Author Arias, Enrique Desmond.

Title Drugs & democracy in Rio de Janeiro : trafficking, social networks, & public security / Enrique Desmond Arias.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2006]
©2006
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Description 1 online resource (xx, 279 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-268) and index.
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.
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Subject Violence -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro.
Violence.
Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro.
Slums -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro.
Slums.
Crime -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro.
Crime.
Drug traffic -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro.
Drug traffic.
Police corruption -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro.
Police corruption.
Community organization -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro.
Community organization.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Drugs and democracy in Rio de Janeiro
Other Form: Print version: Arias, Enrique Desmond. Drugs & democracy in Rio de Janeiro. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006 0807830607 0807857742 (DLC) 2006013089 (OCoLC)67773806
ISBN 9780807877371 (electronic book)
0807877379 (electronic book)
9781469605135 (electronic book)
1469605139 (electronic book)
0807830607 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0807857742 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780807830604 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780807857748 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

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