Sharing This Walk An Ethnography of Prison Life and the PCC in Brazil |
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| Author:
| Biondi, Karina |
| Translator:
| Collins, John F. |
| Series title: | Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4696-2340-5 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2016 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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The Primeiro Comando do Capital (PCC) is a Sao Paulo prison gang that since the 1990s has expanded into the most powerful criminal network in Brazil. Karina Biondi's rich ethnography of the PCC is uniquely informed by her insider-outsider status. Available for the first time in English, Biondi's riveting portrait of the PCC illuminates how the organisation operates inside and outside of prison.
The Primeiro Comando do Capital (PCC) is a Sao Paulo prison gang that since the 1990s has expanded into the most powerful criminal network in Brazil. Karina Biondi's rich ethnography of the PCC is uniquely informed by her insider-outsider status. Available for the first time in English, Biondi's riveting portrait of the PCC illuminates how the organisation operates inside and outside of prison.