The article is about the process of the emergence, consolidation, and expansion of factions in the Brazilian states of Ceará and Rio Grande do Norte. We discuss the forms of involvement of adolescent youths in criminal collectives known as factions, covering their experiences in two particular groups: the Guardiões do Estado (Guardians of the State), from Ceará, and the Sindicato do Crime (Crime Syndicate), from Rio Grande do Norte. In general lines, we evince dynamics that are specific to these groups and contexts, as well as modes of representation and management of their criminal practices. Lastly, we cover the social effects of an ever-greater number of youths involved in such organizations, analyzing the consequences of this phenomenon...
Since the nineties Brazil is fully included in the redefinition process of narcotrafficking’s routes...
For the past generation scholars have written about violence, crime, and conflict in Rio de Janeiro’...
In recent decades organized crime has ceased to be an isolated issue concerning only a single countr...
Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar o envolvimento de jovens na criminalidade no estado de Mato G...
Este artigo apresenta os principais resultados de uma pesquisa sobre a atuação de gangues juvenis e ...
This article analyzes youth experiences in the face of criminal governance efforts in the peripherie...
This article dialogue with sociological studies about the involvement of youth in dynamics of violen...
O presente trabalho pretende contribuir para a análise do fenômeno do crime organizado. Descreve os ...
This article aims to understand the contemporary forms of high-mobility youth interaction within the...
This article discusses how the social roles played by factions constitute a new type of criminal gov...
This article was originally presented as conference at Brazilian Academy of Letters on July 3, 2008....
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the interactions between police and underage youth involved ...
This article discusses the vertiginous proliferation of violence suffered and perpetrated by juvenil...
Aunque Brasil siempre ha sido considerado entre los países más violentos de la región, en los último...
The article descriptively examines 238 cases of child rape in rural areas of the state of Alagoas (B...
Since the nineties Brazil is fully included in the redefinition process of narcotrafficking’s routes...
For the past generation scholars have written about violence, crime, and conflict in Rio de Janeiro’...
In recent decades organized crime has ceased to be an isolated issue concerning only a single countr...
Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar o envolvimento de jovens na criminalidade no estado de Mato G...
Este artigo apresenta os principais resultados de uma pesquisa sobre a atuação de gangues juvenis e ...
This article analyzes youth experiences in the face of criminal governance efforts in the peripherie...
This article dialogue with sociological studies about the involvement of youth in dynamics of violen...
O presente trabalho pretende contribuir para a análise do fenômeno do crime organizado. Descreve os ...
This article aims to understand the contemporary forms of high-mobility youth interaction within the...
This article discusses how the social roles played by factions constitute a new type of criminal gov...
This article was originally presented as conference at Brazilian Academy of Letters on July 3, 2008....
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the interactions between police and underage youth involved ...
This article discusses the vertiginous proliferation of violence suffered and perpetrated by juvenil...
Aunque Brasil siempre ha sido considerado entre los países más violentos de la región, en los último...
The article descriptively examines 238 cases of child rape in rural areas of the state of Alagoas (B...
Since the nineties Brazil is fully included in the redefinition process of narcotrafficking’s routes...
For the past generation scholars have written about violence, crime, and conflict in Rio de Janeiro’...
In recent decades organized crime has ceased to be an isolated issue concerning only a single countr...