Description
| Summary: | Prisons and jails in Rio de Janeiro are violent and crowded; they are governed by narco-gangs and are intensely religious spaces. Rio's penal institutions reflect the social world of the poor neighbourhoods where most of the inmates lived before their arrests. They are places where the state has a weak presence and residents organize around nonstate entities, primarily gangs or Pentecostal churches. Inside of prison, Pentecostal inmates form churches that resemble the gangs in organization and leadership structure. The gangs allow the churches to function autonomously. To gather data on the these groups, the author spent two weeks living inside a prison in Brazil and then collected ethnographic data by regularly visiting one prison and one jail in Rio de Janeiro for a year.
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2017. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
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| Audience: | Specialized. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| ISBN: | 9780190239015
0190239018
9780190238988
0190238984
019023900X
9780190239008 |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 21, 2017). |
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