Authors:
- Based on extensive interviews with drug traffickers, users, and law enforcement
- Explores the middle class drug market in Recife, Brazil
- Examines market characteristics, consumption patterns, and policing strategies that contribute to violence
- Challenges the class-blind “systemic violence” thesis that currently dominates analyses of drug violence
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Jean Daudelin
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Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
José Luiz Ratton
About the authors
José Luiz Ratton is Professor and Director of the Crime, Violence and Public Safety Lab, at the Federal University of Pernambuco, in Recife, Brazil.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Illegal Markets, Violence, and Inequality
Book Subtitle: Evidence from a Brazilian Metropolis
Authors: Jean Daudelin, José Luiz Ratton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76249-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76248-7Published: 03 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76249-4Published: 21 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 90
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Latin American and Caribbean Economics, Trafficking, Latin American Politics, Urban Economics, Law and Economics, Development Economics