City of Walls
Subtitle: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: April 2, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 473
ISBN-13: 9780520221437
Subjects: American studies; Civil rights & citizenship; Crime & criminology; Social & cultural anthropology; Urban communities; Social Science; Criminology; Säao Paulo; Sociology; Brazil; Social classes; Sociology - Urban; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Crime; Anthropology - General; Sao Paulo; Segregation
First sentence: As violent crime has increased in Sao Paulo in the past fifteen years, so has the fear of crime.