Sharing this walk : an ethnography of prison life and the PCC in Brazil /

Sharing this walk : an ethnography of prison life and the PCC in Brazil / Karina Biondi ; edited and translated by John F. Collins.

"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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Biondi, Karina (Author)
Other Authors: Collins, John F. (Editor, Translator)
Other title:Junto e misturado. English.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Portuguese
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Series:Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
Subjects:
Primeiro Comando da Capital.
Prison gangs > Brazil > São Paulo (State)
Organized crime > Brazil > São Paulo (State)
Prisons > Brazil > São Paulo (State) > Social conditions.
Prisoners > Brazil > São Paulo (State) > Social conditions.
Organized crime.
Prison gangs.
Prisoners > Social conditions.
Brazil > São Paulo (State)
Table of Contents:
  • Cover ; Contents; Note from the Editor-Translator; Foreword by Jorge Mattar Villela; Introduction; Chapter One. The PCC ; Chapter Two. Politics and Pedagogy: Inside the University ; Chapter Three. The Politics of Immanence ; Chapter Four. The Politics of Transcendence ; Conclusion; Author's Afterword to the English-Language Edition; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C ; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.

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