Living in the crossfire [electronic resource] : Favela residents, drug dealers, and police violence in Rio de Janeiro / Maria Helena Moreira Alves and Philip Evanson ; with the assistance of Cristina Pedroza de Faria (Kita Pedroza) and Jose Valentin Palacios Vilches.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Voices of Latin American life.
Main Author: Alves, Maria Helena Moreira, 1944-
Other Authors: Evanson, Philip
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2011.
Series:Voices of Latin American life.
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Variant Title:
Living in the Crossfire: Favela Residents, Drug Dealers, and Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Rio de Janeiro : the marvelous city and its communities. The decline of poverty and the rise of violence
  • Living in the Favelas in the twenty first century
  • Communities under fire
  • Voices of hope and renewal
  • Voices of community leaders
  • Voices of public security officials. Security for whom?
  • Voices of police officers
  • Voices of government officials.