This book challenges the quasi-consensus that Latin American
countries dominate global homicide rankings mainly due to the
illegal nature of drug production and trafficking. Building on US
scholarship that looks at the role of social exclusion and
discriminatory policing in drug violence, the authors of this
volume show that the association between illegality and violence
cannot be divorced from the inequality that prevails in those
countries. This book looks in detail at the functioning of drug
markets in Recife, the largest metropolitan area in Brazil's
North-East and, over the last 25 years, the heart of the country's
most violent metropolitan area. Building on extensive interviews
and field work, the authors map out the city's drug markets and
explore the reasons why some of those markets are violent, and
others are not. The analysis focuses on the micromechanics of each
market, looking at consumption patterns and at the workings of
retail sales and distribution. Such a systematic micro-level
comparative analysis of the workings of Latin American drug markets
is simply not available elsewhere in current literature. These
findings point to significant gaps in current understandings of the
link between illegal markets and violence, and they illuminate the
need to factor in the way in which those markets are nested in
exclusionary social contexts.
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