Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City

by Daniel M. Goldstein

Book Overview

In Outlawed, Daniel M. Goldstein reveals how indigenous residents of marginal neighborhoods in Cochabamba, Bolivia, struggle to balance security with rights. Feeling abandoned to the crime and violence that grip their communities, they sometimes turn to vigilante practices, including lynching, to apprehend and punish suspected criminals. Goldstein describes those in this precarious position as "outlawed" not protected from crime by the law...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822353113
• ISBN13: 9780822353119
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"