Brazilian criminal organizations as transnational violent non-state actors: a case study of the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC)

This article aims to analyze the evolution of Brazilian criminal organization Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC—First Command of the Capital), especially its transformation from a group advocating human rights to a transnational violent non-state actor. Created in the late 1990s by inmates at Taubate...

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Main Author: Ferreira, Marcos Alan S. V. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 5 November 2018
In: Trends in organized crime
Year: 2019, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: [148]-165
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Keywords:
Violent non-state actors
Organized Crime
Primeiro Comando da Capital
Brazil
Violence
Public security