Violence at the urban margins
Auyero
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy.Contributor
Auyero, JavierContributor
Scheper-Hughes, NancyContributor
Bourgois, Philippe I.Contributor
This title examines the causes, forms, and experiences of urban violence in the Americas. It does so through a series of theoretically informed ethnographic analyses of the role that violence plays in the lives of the urban poor in South, Central, and North America. It pays particular attention to the role gangs, illicit drugs, and state responses to drug-dealing play in sky-rocketing levels of violence, and to the responses ravaged communities devise to deal with them.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This title examines the causes, forms, and experiences of urban violence in the Americas. It does so through a series of theoretically informed ethnographic analyses of the role that violence plays in the lives of the urban poor in South, Central, and North America. It pays particular attention to the role gangs, illicit drugs, and state responses to drug-dealing play in sky-rocketing levels of violence, and to the responses ravaged communities devise to deal with them.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 3, 2015).
Urban violence
Urban violence
Urban poor
Urban poor
Sociology & Social History
Social Sciences
Social Conditions