Spiritual life and the rationalization of violence: the state within the state and evangelical order in a Venezuelan prison

This chapter explores inmate rule and religious mediation within a complex power structure that regulates and rationalizes violence inside a Venezuelan prison. It argues that the State seemingly delegated (or relinquished) the internal control of the facility to prisoners. In turn, the “inmate gover...

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Main Author: Duno Gottberg, Luis 1968- (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: Carceral communities in Latin America
Year: 2021, Pages: 321-338
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