The Dynamics of Criminal Governance: Networks and Social Order in Rio de Janeiro

• Enrique Desmond Arias ^[1]
  1. [1] New York University

     New York University

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Journal of Latin American Studies, ISSN 0022-216X, ISSN-e 1469-767X, Vol. 38, Nº. 2, 2006, págs. 293-325
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X06000721
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• Resumen

  • Academic analyses of crime and policing in Latin America have generally focused on the failure of state institutions to guarantee a rule of law. This study, however, argues that the persistently high levels of violence in Rio's favelas [shantytowns] result not from the failure of institutions but, rather, from networks that bring criminals together with civic leaders, politicians, and police. These contacts protect traffickers from state repression and help them build political support among the residents of the where they favelas operate. Rather than creating ‘parallel states’ outside of political control, then, these networks link trafficker dominated favelas into Rio's broader political and social system.

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