Scapegoating outsiders: The murders of street youth in modern brazil

Policing and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 265-280

  Huggins, Martha K ^a   Mesquita, P ^b  

^a UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNICEF   (United States)

Author keywords

Brazil; Death squads; Informal sector; Murder; Police; Street children; Vigilantism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937291710     PISSN: 10439463     EISSN: 14772728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10439463.1995.9964730     Document Type: Article

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