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For all of Brazil's efforts to reduce poverty--and its progress--the favelas in Rio de Janeiro still house one-third of the city's poor, and violence permeates every aspect of the city. As urban drug gangs and police wage war in the streets, favela residents who are especially vulnerable live in fear of being caught in the crossfire. Politicians, human rights activists, and security authorities have been working to minimize the social and economic problems at the root of this "war." Living in the Crossfire presents impassioned testimony from officials, residents, and others in response to the ongoing crisis. Maria Helena Moreira Alves and Philip Evanson provide vivid accounts from grieving mothers and members of the police working to stop the war and, among officials, from Brazil's President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, who discusses his efforts to improve public security.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Social welfare & social services

• Full title: Living in the Crossfire
• Subtitle: Favela Residents, Drug Dealers, and Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro
• Author: Maria Helena Moreira Alves, Philip Evanson
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9781439900031
• ISBN: 1439900035
• ID: 05075872
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Weight: 467 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. March 2011

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