Ebook: The Ambivalent State: Police-Criminal Collusion At The Urban Margins
Author: Javier Auyero Katherine Sobering
- Genre: Other Social Sciences // Sociology
- Tags: Criminal Justice Administration Of: Argentina Police: Argentina Police Corruption: Argentina Marginality Social: Argentina Drug Dealers: Argentina Drug Control: Argentina Criminal Justice: Administration Of Marginality Social Police Police Corruption Argentina
- Series: Global And Comparative Ethnography
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: Argentina.
- Language: English
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In 'The Ambivalent State', Javier Auyero and Katherine Sobering examine the fascinating world of clandestine relationships between police officers and drug dealers in Argentina. Drawing on a unique combination of ethnographic research and hundreds of pages of wiretapped phone conversations, they analyze the inner-workings of police-criminal collusion and how they shape drug markets, policing in poor urban areas, and Read more...