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

Author/creator Arias, Enrique Desmond
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006.
Descriptionxx, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content Table of contents only
Subject(s)
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.
Variant title Drugs and democracy in Rio de Janeiro
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-268) and index.
LCCN 2006013089
ISBN0807830607 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807857742 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780807830604
ISBN9780807857748

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