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Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro
2009,2006
Overview
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 repressive police tactics, and corruption runs deep in state structures. The rich move to walled communities, and the poor are caught between the criminals and often corrupt officials. Arias argues that public policy change is not enough to stop the vicious cycle of crime and corruption. The challenge, he suggests, is to build new social networks committed to controlling violence locally. Arias also offers comparative insights that apply this analysis to other cities in Brazil and throughout Latin America.
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press,University of North Carolina Press
Subject
/ Community organization -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
/ Crime
/ Crime -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
/ Drug traffic -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
/ Drugs
/ HISTORY
/ Networks
/ Police
/ Police corruption -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
/ Safety
/ Security
/ Slums
/ Slums -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
/ Violence
ISBN
9780807857748, 0807857742, 9780807830604, 0807830607, 0807877379, 9780807877371
