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Published: 01 January 2010
DOI: 10.1215/9780822392644-012
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9264-4
Series: Dissident acts
Published: 11 October 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060123-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6012-3
... to the advance of today’s extreme right. This chapter traces the historical origins of militias (paramilitary vigilante protection and extraction operations), which became the dominant governing institution in Rio de Janeiro. militia death squad violence organized crime metropolitan region ...
Series: Dissident acts
Published: 11 October 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6012-3
... militia death squad violence organized crime metropolitan region ...
Published: 16 March 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7577-7
... Comando Vermelho prison conditions organized crime corruption war on drugs ...
Book: Economies of Violence: Transnational Feminism, Postsocialism, and the Politics of Sex Trafficking
Published: 13 July 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7528-9
... U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act Cold War organized crime antitrafficking ...
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Policing the “Italian Problem” Criminality, Racial Difference, and the NYPD Italian Squad, 1903–1909
Published: 13 October 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027546-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2754-6
... Italian New Yorkers and became a model for other cities across the country. Failure to sustain lasting results against Italian organized crime and increasing anti-Italian prejudice led to the NYPD to consider immigration restrictions and deportation, rather than immigrant detectives, as a solution...
Series: Public Planet Books
Published: 05 July 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5972-1
... regional analysis drug economies gangs cartels organized and disorganized crime ...
Book: Economies of Violence: Transnational Feminism, Postsocialism, and the Politics of Sex Trafficking
Published: 13 July 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375289-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7528-9
... Act Cold War organized crime antitrafficking ...
Published: 16 March 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375777-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7577-7
..., in this case the Comando Vermelho, respond to the situation. The chapter also discusses the nature of the Brazilian prison system in general, and the recent increase in the size of the prisoner population due to the country’s “war on drugs.” Comando Vermelho prison conditions organized crime...
Published: 12 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372899-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7289-9
... nations’ present-day media cultures, which are marked by public displays of violence perpetrated by the military, police, private security forces, and organized crime. Criminal organizations have mounted a formidable challenge to these states’ historically precarious monopolies on violence and become ever...
Published: 16 March 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375777-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7577-7
... of the conflict between factions on favela communities on the outside and how, in recent years, the authorities in Rio have opted to change the way they combat organized crime by occupying and securing urban territory through establishing Police Pacifying Units, or Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora. Comando...
Book: Economies of Violence: Transnational Feminism, Postsocialism, and the Politics of Sex Trafficking
Published: 13 July 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375289-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7528-9
... and social vulnerabilities that sustain trafficking. U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act Cold War organized crime antitrafficking ...
Published: 26 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027751-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2775-1
... This chapter continues with the inscription of trans lives, bodies, and queer desires into the domain of law through femicides. Bringing together trans and natrans femicides, I look at the political life organized around the deaths of sex/gender-transgressive and trans people. The chapter...
Published: 02 August 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059752-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5975-2
... This chapter analyzes the New Order regime’s response to a wave of violent crime in the early 1980s. Based on news reports, police theses, oral history, and scholarly accounts, the chapter describes how the regime developed a two-pronged approach to its war on crime: first, it engaged...
Series: Dissident acts
Published: 11 October 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6012-3
... (paramilitary vigilante protection and extraction operations), which became the dominant governing institution in Rio de Janeiro. militia death squad violence organized crime metropolitan region The commercial sale of sex is not legal in Rio de Janeiro. It is rather better to say that it’s...
Series: Public Planet Books
Published: 05 July 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059721-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5972-1
... as a hub are identified. The four geographic sites exanubed—Southern California, Sinaloa, Matamoros, and Honduras—provide the prototypes. regional analysis drug economies gangs cartels organized and disorganized crime ...
Book: Feminism against Cisness
Series: ASTERISK: Gender, Trans-, and All That Comes After
Published: 29 March 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059431-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5943-1
... This chapter names and indicts transnational anti-trans political alliances that target children explicitly for harassment, bullying, and legislative and administrative violence. Trans children are in the crosshairs of legislative efforts to make trans-affirmative healthcare a crime and to ban...
Published: 19 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027690-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2769-0
... Chapter 3 follows WWAV’s process of organizing a systematic challenge to fight the criminalization of our community in the wake of Hurricane Katrina under Louisiana’s “Crime Against Nature by Solicitation” (CANS) statute, which mandated sex offender registration for a period of fifteen years...
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