04599nam 22007575 450 991029936270332120200704202036.03-319-76249-410.1007/978-3-319-76249-4(CKB)4100000002892449(DE-He213)978-3-319-76249-4(MiAaPQ)EBC5387420(MiAaPQ)EBC5576472(Au-PeEL)EBL5576472(OCoLC)1029352587(EXLCZ)99410000000289244920180321d2018 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierIllegal Markets, Violence, and Inequality Evidence from a Brazilian Metropolis /by Jean Daudelin, José Luiz Ratton1st ed. 2018.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2018.1 online resource (XIII, 90 p. 4 illus.) Palgrave pivot3-319-76248-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction: Drug Markets and Violence in Recife, Brazil -- 2. Islands of Peace: Middle-Class Drug Markets -- 3. Crack: Micromechanics of a Dysfunctional Illegal Market -- 4. Inequality and Deterrence in Recife: The Rise and Fall of the "Pact for Life" -- 5. Conclusion.This book challenges the quasi-consensus that Latin American countries dominate global homicide rankings mainly due to the illegal nature of drug production and trafficking. Building on US scholarship that looks at the role of social exclusion and discriminatory policing in drug violence, the authors of this volume show that the association between illegality and violence cannot be divorced from the inequality that prevails in those countries. This book looks in detail at the functioning of drug markets in Recife, the largest metropolitan area in Brazil’s North-East and, over the last 25 years, the heart of the country’s most violent metropolitan area. Building on extensive interviews and field work, the authors map out the city’s drug markets and explore the reasons why some of those markets are violent, and others are not. The analysis focuses on the micromechanics of each market, looking at consumption patterns and at the workings of retail sales and distribution. Such a systematic micro-level comparative analysis of the workings of Latin American drug markets is simply not available elsewhere in current literature. These findings point to significant gaps in current understandings of the link between illegal markets and violence, and they illuminate the need to factor in the way in which those markets are nested in exclusionary social contexts.Palgrave pivot.Latin America—Economic conditionsTransnational crimeLatin America—Politics and governmentUrban economicsLaw and economicsDevelopment economicsLatin American and Caribbean Economicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W45040Traffickinghttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1B4030Latin American Politicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911150Urban Economicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W49010Law and Economicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W39000Development Economicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W42000Latin America—Economic conditions.Transnational crime.Latin America—Politics and government.Urban economics.Law and economics.Development economics.Latin American and Caribbean Economics.Trafficking.Latin American Politics.Urban Economics.Law and Economics.Development Economics.330.0098Daudelin Jeanauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1062707Ratton José Luizauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910299362703321Illegal Markets, Violence, and Inequality2527903UNINA