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The Killing Consensus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

The Killing Consensus

We hold many assumptions about police workÑthat it is the responsibility of the state, or that police officers are given the right to kill in the name of public safety or self-defense. But in The Killing Consensus, Graham Denyer Willis shows how in S‹o Paulo, Brazil, killing and the arbitration of ÒnormalÓ killing in the name of social order are actually conducted by two groupsÑthe police and organized crimeÑboth operating according to parallel logics of murder. Based on three years of ethnographic fieldwork, Willis's book traces how homicide detectives categorize two types of killing: the first resulting from ÒresistanceÓ to police arrest (which is often broadly defined) and the se...

Keep the Bones Alive
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 229

Keep the Bones Alive

Introduction : gone -- Disappearance and the search -- Keep the bones alive -- Unearthing life -- Disappearance and the cemetery -- The usefulness of capricious knowledge -- The disappearable subject -- From disappearance, presence -- Muted martyrdom -- Make live, make disappear -- "I just want to live" -- Acknowlegments -- Appendix : reading life through disappearance : a note on method.

Making Peace in Drug Wars
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 357

Making Peace in Drug Wars

State crackdowns on drug cartels often backfire, producing entrenched 'cartel-state conflict'; deterrence approaches have curbed violence but proven fragile. This book explains why.

Institutional Bypasses
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 165

Institutional Bypasses

Analyzes institutional bypasses, a strategy to promote change and implement reforms in developing countries.

Chilean Cinema
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

Chilean Cinema

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1976
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Social Order of the Underworld
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

The Social Order of the Underworld

This book challenges the widely held view that inmates create prison gangs to promote racism and violence. On the contrary, gangs form to create order. Most people assume that violent inmates left to themselves will descend into a chaotic anarchy, but that's not necessarily the case. This book studies the hidden order of the prison underworld to understand how order arises among outlaws. It uses economics to explore the secret world of the convict culture, inmate hierarchy, and prison gang politics. Inmates engaged in illegal activity cannot rely entirely on state-based governance institutions, such as courts of law and the police, to create order. Correctional officers will not resolve a di...

This Present Darkness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 331

This Present Darkness

Traces the origins of Nigerian organized crime, going back to the final years of colonial rule.

Youth Violence in Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

Youth Violence in Latin America

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-10-26
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  • Publisher: Springer

This volume provides a systematic overview of the contemporary Latin American youth violence phenomenon. The authors focus specifically on youth gangs, juvenile justice issues, and applied research concerns, providing a rounded and balanced exploration of this increasingly important topic.

Violence at the Urban Margins
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Violence at the Urban Margins

In the Americas, debates around issues of citizen's public safety--from debates that erupt after highly publicized events, such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, to those that recurrently dominate the airwaves in Latin America--are dominated by members of the middle and upper-middle classes. However, a cursory count of the victims of urban violence in the Americas reveals that the people suffering the most from violence live, and die, at the lowest of the socio-symbolic order, at the margins of urban societies. The inhabitants of the urban margins are hardly ever heard in discussions about public safety. They live in danger but the discourse about violence and risk belongs...

Mortal Doubt
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 333

Mortal Doubt

The fear of violent crime dominates Guatemala City. In the midst of unprecedented levels of postwar violence, Guatemalans struggle to fathom the myriad forces that have made life in this city so deeply insecure. Born out of histories of state terror, migration, and US deportation, maras (transnational gangs) have become the face of this new era of violence. They are brutal organizations engaged in extortion, contract killings, and the drug trade, and yet they have also become essential to the emergence of a certain kind of social order. Drawing on years of fieldwork inside prisons, police precincts, and gang-dominated neighborhoods, Anthony W. Fontes demonstrates how gang violence has become indissoluble from contemporary social imaginaries and how these gangs provide cover for a host of other criminal actors. Ethnographically rich and unflinchingly critical, Mortal Doubt illuminates the maras’ role in making and mooring collective terror in Guatemala City while tracing the ties that bind this violence to those residing in far safer environs.