Enrique Desmond Arias: 2 books
Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro
Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Taking an ethnographic approach to understanding urban violence, Enrique Desmond Arias examines the ongoing problems of crime and police corruption that have led to widespread misery and human rights violations in many of Latin America's new democracies. Employing participant observation and interview...
by Enrique Desmond Arias
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This book examines security in three cities that suffer from chronic violence: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Medellin, Colombia; and Kingston, Jamaica. In each, democratic states contend with subnational armed groups that dominate territory and play important roles in politics even as they contribute to...