Sharing This Walk : An Ethnography of Prison Life and the PCC in Brazil /

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"The Primeiro Comando do Capital (PCC) is a São Paulo prison gang that since the 1990s has expanded into the most powerful criminal network in Brazil. ... During the period of Biondi's ... visits ... and her extensive fieldwork in prisons and on the streets of São Paulo, the PCC effectiv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Biondi, Karina (Author)
Other Authors: Collins, John F. (Editor, Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Portugués
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Primeiro Comando da Capital.
Prisoners > Social conditions.
Prison gangs.
Organized crime.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Prisonniers > Bresil > São Paulo (État) > Conditions sociales.
Prisons > Bresil > São Paulo (État) > Conditions sociales.
Crime organise > Bresil > São Paulo (État)
Gangs dans les prisons > Bresil > São Paulo (État)
Prisoners > Brazil > São Paulo (State) > Social conditions.
Prisons > Brazil > São Paulo (State) > Social conditions.
Organized crime > Brazil > São Paulo (State)
Prison gangs > Brazil > São Paulo (State)
Brazil > São Paulo (State)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"The Primeiro Comando do Capital (PCC) is a São Paulo prison gang that since the 1990s has expanded into the most powerful criminal network in Brazil. ... During the period of Biondi's ... visits ... and her extensive fieldwork in prisons and on the streets of São Paulo, the PCC effectively controlled more than ninety percent of São Paulo's 147 prison facilities"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (222 pages).
ISBN:9781469630328

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