The book provides a compelling and comprehensive explanation of the puzzling resilience of the gangs that have operated in Rio de Janeiro since the 1980s. It offers a broad overview of the history of gangs and gang alliances (factions) in the whole of the city, focussing on the evolution and consistency of these groups over time, positing the link between these and the groups’ chances of survival. It draws on more than 285 articles from 15 newspapers and media outlets across a time span covering more than 40 years, supplemented with interviews with high-ranking public security officers and secondary data. Applying a novel and composite translation of biological evolutionary concepts to a complex criminological context, it focusses on three main fields of interest: territory, relations, and internal dynamics.
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An Evolutionary History of the Gangs and Factions of Rio de Janeiro
Adapting to Survive
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Adapting to Survive
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Table of contents
- Palgrave's Frontiers in Criminology Theory
- An Evolutionary History of the Gangs and Factions of Rio de Janeiro
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- About the Author
- 1. A Matter of Survival: The Puzzle of Urban Armed Group Resilience
- 2. Criminal Adaptation: An Evolutionary Framework for the Study of Urban Armed Groups
- 3. Divided Attention: Rio’s Criminal Groups Between Prisons and Favelas
- 4. Weaving Ties and Cutting Threads: An Ecology of Hostility and Corruption in Rio de Janeiro
- 5. Beheading the Headless? The Continued Resilience of Rio’s Violent Groups
- Index
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