Dead-End Lives: Drugs and Violence in the City Shadows

by Daniel Briggs and Ruben Monge Gamero

"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 Valdeming?mez: a lawless landscape of drugs and violence where the third world meets the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447341694
• ISBN13: 9781447341697
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"