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Subject(s)

• Prison gangs—Brazil—São Paulo (State). [Browse]
• Organized crime—Brazil—São Paulo (State). [Browse]
• Prisons—Brazil—São Paulo (State)—Social conditions [Browse]
• Prisoners—Brazil—São Paulo (State)—Social conditions [Browse]
• Primeiro Comando da Capital [Browse]

Editor

• Collins, John F., 1965 April 19- [Browse]

Translator

• Collins, John F., 1965 April 19- [Browse]

Series

• Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução [More in this series]
• Latin America in translation / en traducción / em tradução

Summary note

"The Primeiro Comando do Capital (PCC) is a São Paulo prison gang that since the 1990s has expanded into the most powerful criminal network in Brazil. ... During the period of Biondi's ... visits ... and her extensive fieldwork in prisons and on the streets of São Paulo, the PCC effectively controlled more than ninety percent of São Paulo's 147 prison facilities"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes

Translated from the Portuguese.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-182) and index.

Language note

Translated from the Portuguese.

Contents

• Ch. One: The PCC
• ch. Two: Politics and Pedagogy Inside the University
• ch. Three: The Politics of Immanence
• ch. Four: The Politics of Transcendence.

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ISBN

• 9781469630304 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
• 1469630303 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
• 9781469623405 (paperback : alkaline paper)
• 1469623404 (paperback : alkaline paper)

LCCN

2016018926

OCLC

945745459

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