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Author Briggs, Daniel (Criminologist), author.

Title Dead-end lives : drugs and violence in the city shadows / Daniel Briggs and Rubén Monge Gamero
Published Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2017
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (310 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents 1. Introduction : welcome to Valdemingómez -- 2. Politics, "democracy" and the ideology of the postmodern city -- 3. Madrid : history, social processes and the growth in inequality -- 4. Drugs, cultural change and drug markets -- 5. Journeys to dependence -- 6. Life in the city shadows : work, identity and social status -- 7. The council, police and health services : an impasse to solutions -- 8. Post dependency : what next? -- 9. Not really the conclusion -- 10. Epilogue
Summary Julia nervously emerges from her shabby tent in the suburban wastelands on the outskirts of Madrid to face another day of survival in one of Europe's most problematic ghettos: she is homeless, wanted by the police, and addicted to heroin and cocaine. She is also five months pregnant and rarely makes contact with support services. Welcome to the city shadows in Valdemingómez: a lawless landscape of drugs and violence where the third world meets the Wild West. Briggs and Monge entered this area with only their patience, some cigarettes and a mobile phone and collected vivid testimonies and images of Julia and others like her who live there. This important book documents what they found, locating these people's stories and situations in a political, economic and social context of spatial inequality and oppressive mechanisms of social control-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Print version record
Subject Inner cities -- Spain -- Madrid
Drug abuse -- Social aspects -- Spain -- Madrid
Urban violence -- Spain -- Madrid
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Social conditions
Economic history
Drug abuse -- Social aspects
Inner cities
Urban violence
Toxicomanes -- Espagne -- Madrid (Espagne)
Toxicomanie -- Aspect social -- Espagne -- Madrid (Espagne)
Violence urbaine -- Espagne -- Madrid (Espagne)
Quartiers pauvres -- Espagne -- Madrid (Espagne)
SUBJECT Valdemingómez (Madrid, Spain) -- Social conditions
Valdemingómez (Madrid, Spain) -- Economic conditions
Subject Spain -- Madrid
Form Electronic book
Author Gamero, Rubén Monge, author
ISBN 9781447341710
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