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Being crime: Youth violence and criminal identities in Bahia, Brazil

Ethnography

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Abstract

Ethnography, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 121-135, March 2026.
In Brazil, a growing number of young citizens from the socioeconomic periphery embark on a career in crime, earning their living by armed robbery or selling drugs. Through the life stories and narratives of inmates of a juvenile prison in the state of ...