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Author(s): | Zoettl, P. A. |
Date: | 2022 |
Title: | Being crime: Youth violence and criminal identities in Bahia, Brazil |
Journal title: | Ethnography |
Volume: | N/A |
Reference: | Zoettl, P. A. (2022). Being crime: Youth violence and criminal identities in Bahia, Brazil. Ethnography. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14661381221115191 |
ISSN: | 1466-1381 |
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | 10.1177/14661381221115191 |
Keywords: | Bahia Brazil Crime Death Drug dealing Drug trafficking Police violence Violence Youth offending Youth violence |
Abstract: | In Brazil, a growing number of young citizens from the socioeconomic periphery embark on a career in crime, earning their living by armed robbery or selling drugs. Through the life stories and narratives of inmates of a juvenile prison in the state of Bahia, the article anatomizes what makes these young men take up and stick to a life in conflict with the law, despite the limited profits and substantial hardships involved. I argue that the experience of violence, both suffered and perpetrated, is central to the forging of the youths’ criminal identities, and their persistent failure to change their life trajectories. |
Peerreviewed: | yes |
Access type: | Open Access |
Appears in Collections: | CEI-RI - Artigos em revista científica internacional com arbitragem científica |
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