Journal
CURRENT SOCIOLOGY
Volume 65, Issue 3, Pages 448-465Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0011392116667165
Keywords
Brazil; crime; favelas; order; politics; Rio de Janeiro; social disorganization; violence
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- United States Fulbright Commission
- National Science Foundation
- Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
- Social Science Research Council
- American Council of Learned Societies
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For the past generation scholars have written about violence, crime, and conflict in Rio de Janeiro's favelas. While this scholarship has developed an extensive understanding of the problem of violence and criminal control of the city's favelas it has not yet effectively engaged in a discussion of the implications of differential types of crime creating local security orders. Building on research in two different city regions in Rio de Janeiro, this article examines how different types of crime groups emerge from varied forms of social disorganization and contribute to particular models of social control and order. The article examines the varying relationships and exchanges built by drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro's Zona Norte (Northern Zone) and milicias in the city's Zona Oeste (Western Zone). The actions of these criminal organizations emerge from and promote orders that affect the lived political, social, and economic experiences of residents of favelas.
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