Drugs & democracy in Rio de Janeiro trafficking, social networks, & public security /

Arias, Enrique Desmond.

Drugs & democracy in Rio de Janeiro trafficking, social networks, & public security / [electronic resource] : Drugs and democracy in Rio de Janeiro Enrique Desmond Arias. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006. - xx, 279 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-268) and index.

Introduction: thinking about social violence in Brazil -- Setting the scene: continuities and discontinuities in a "divided city" -- Network approach to criminal politics -- Tubarao -- Santa Ana -- Vigario Geral -- Comparative analysis of criminal networks in Brazil and Latin America -- Theorizing the politics of social violence -- Epilogue: Rio 2005.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






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.


Electronic books.

HN290.R47 / V53 2006

364.10981/53