Facing the First Command of Capital (PCC): regarding ethnography of Brazil’s ‘Biggest Prison Gang’
The First Command of the Capital first appeared as a type of prisoner’s collective in the early 1990s, and today remains present in almost all prisons and urban areas within the State of São Paulo, Brazil. Over the years that the author of this chapter has dedicated to ethnographic research on this...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Carceral communities in Latin America
Year: 2021, Pages: 357-374 |
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| Summary: | The First Command of the Capital first appeared as a type of prisoner’s collective in the early 1990s, and today remains present in almost all prisons and urban areas within the State of São Paulo, Brazil. Over the years that the author of this chapter has dedicated to ethnographic research on this problem, she has developed theoretical and methodological strategies permitting the displacement of some taken-for-granted concepts commonly used in the criminological social sciences. This chapter explores three phases of research, the challenges confronted in each one, and how theoretical and methodological strategies were influenced by the exigencies of prison fieldwork. The chapter draws attention to the ways in which ethnographic research and ethnographic object are mutually constituted, and addresses the broader consequences of this conjugation. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 372-374 |
| ISBN: | 9783030614980 |
