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This study aims to analyze the critiques of the clandestine installation of electricity – known as “gato” – and how it can simultaneously be thought of as criticism. We do so by deploying an ethnographic observation of the exchange of accusations between residents of the Santa Marta favela in Rio de Janeiro and agents of the electricity company Light during the time of the Units of the Pacifying Police. We found a predominance, in both sides, of the insinuation of fraud, a veiled accusation of theft – of electricity on the one hand and of money on the other. The relationship between service providers and customers persists between the payment of supposedly abusive bills and the tolerance of the “gato” allegedly practiced by residents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present the results of an exploratory research that tries to fill gaps in flow studies on the criminal justice system (CJS). After the introduction, we mapped the different paths and conditions that a prisoner must meet to leave prison. Then, we quantitatively describe the egression flow in a simplified version of the constructed map. Third, we move on to the qualitative analysis of a typical case of criminal prosecution and criminal execution, to end with some conclusions. Our objective, merely exploratory, is to test an approach based on the differential management of illegalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How a Cab Rank is Born talks about the use of public spaces that I take to describe from the creation of a Taxi Point. With a focus on ethnographic analysis and participant observation, my objective will be to make a critical reflection on how a Taxi Point is created and how they organize this category of urban mobility professionals. Despite the legal norms of urban control, the creation of a Taxi Point illustrates the participation agents that contributes to feeding unofficial practices causing unpredictable regulation by resorting to violence and arbitrariness in the urban spatial configuration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on surveys, focus groups, interviews, and ethnographic insertions, Gold mining on the French-Brazilian Borders: Connections between Legal and Illegal analyzes the clandestine gold mining that attracts Brazilians to French Guiana, highlighting their connections with legal activities in Oiapoque. We seek to understand the assemblages that enable the smuggling of French gold, its insertion in the Brazilian market and the relations intertwined in this universe, involving licit and illicit activities. We see the gold rush that leads Brazilians to cross the border as a social network that encompasses human and non-human subjects and connects the Guyanese Amazon with international markets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lethality and Business Illegalisms on a Triple South American Border: A First Approximation discusses the relationship between illegalisms and lethality through research conducted in the city of Tabatinga (AM), located in the border between Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. Firstly, it introduces three aspects often associated with the city and used to characterize it as a problematic place: homicides, cocaine markets, and institutional density. Secondly, an alternate hypothesis is formulated to re-situate the issue under different empirical-analytical parameters, seeking to highlight the political and economic networks that regulate the cocaine market and produce lethal effects through pistolagem and extermination groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]