Inside Criminalized Governance - How and Why Gangs Rule the Streets of Rio De Janeiro

This book investigates the governance practices of Rio de Janeiro's drug trafficking gangs. Based on three years of ethnographic research, it offers unprecedented documentation of the evolution of three rival gang organizations from the 1970s to the present.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Criminalized Governance: A Conceptual Framework; 3. A Theory of Criminalized Governance; 4. The Origins of Criminalized Governance; 5. Comando Vermelho of Nova Holanda; 6. Comando Vermelho of Parque União; 7. Terceiro Comando (Puro) of Complexo da Maré; 8. Criminalized Governance during Military Occupation; 9. Conclusion.

Summary

This book investigates the governance practices of Rio de Janeiro's drug trafficking gangs. Based on three years of ethnographic research, it offers unprecedented documentation of the evolution of three rival gang organizations from the 1970s to the present.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Barnes, Nicholas (University of St Andrews) Barnes
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2025
• EAN: 9781316513040
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51304-0
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Social Theory, Brazil, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Comparative Politics, History of the Americas, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology