Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security

Name: Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security
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ISBN: 9780807857748

ISBN-10: 0807857742

ISBN-13: 9780807857748

Edition: 2006

Authors: Enrique Desmond Arias

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Taking an ethnographic approach to understanding urban violence, Enrique Desmond Arias examines the ongoing problems of crime and police corruption that have led to widespread misery and human rights violations in many of Latin America's new democracies. Employing participant observation and interview research in three favelas (shantytowns) in Rio de Janeiro over a nine-year period, Arias closely considers the social interactions and criminal networks that are at the heart of the challenges to democratic governance in urban Brazil. Much of the violence is the result of highly organized, politically connected drug dealers feeding off of the global cocaine market. Rising crime prompts…

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List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 10/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 302
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English

Enrique Desmond Arias is assistant professor of government at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York.