Children of the Drug Trade: A Case Study of Children in Organised Armed Violence in Rio de Janeiro.

Ploughshares Monitor | June 22, 2003 | Copyright

Luke Dowdney. 2003, a publication of Viva Rio. To obtain a copy of this book, contact Viva Rio: vivario@vivario.org.br.

This empirical study is based on field work that investigates child and adolescent involvement in armed confrontations in the favelas (shantytowns) of Rio de Janeiro. It sheds light on a problem that belongs not only to Rio but to Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras and Jamaica, South Africa and Nigeria, and possibly many other countries.

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