Terror and the Social Accumulation of Fear: Criminal Governance in Three Paraguayan Border Cities with Argentina and Brazil

This paper analyses and compares the operation of the criminal governance that conditions the routine and activities of the residents and the justice and security system officials of three border cities. Ethnographic strategies, such as observation, interviews, and informal conversations identified...

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Main Authors: Juan Martens, Roque Arnaldo Orrego, Ever Villalba, Ricardo Veloso, Luís González, Francisco Delgado
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2022-06-01
Series:Dilemas: Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social
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Online Access:https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/dilemas/article/view/46429
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Summary:This paper analyses and compares the operation of the criminal governance that conditions the routine and activities of the residents and the justice and security system officials of three border cities. Ethnographic strategies, such as observation, interviews, and informal conversations identified the actors, the goods, and services they exploit, as well as the mechanisms of institutional and social interaction. They act with impunity in these territories due to the control of political commodities, institutional infiltration and different mechanisms of coercion based on symbolic and brutal violence, and the engagement of criminal and disciplinary sanctioning processes, which generate terror and build social fear.
ISSN:1983-5922
2178-2792