Chp 4 &5

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Chp 4 &5 by Mind Map: Chp 4 &5

1. The Streets

1.1. Mirelli

1.1.1. Spent entire life out on the streets

1.2. Luca

1.2.1. Victim of "child circulation" or "child shifting" after death of a parent

1.3. Gloria

1.3.1. Just as likely to throw a child onto the street as to adopt one

1.3.1.1. Expulsion was a sort of "survival of the fittest"

1.4. Felix

1.4.1. Gloria obtained an identity card for him

1.4.1.1. "Fit the bill" for what the police were looking for

1.4.1.1.1. Strereotyping

2. Crime Cont'd

2.1. Police- Bandits

2.1.1. Inescapability of violence in their world

2.2. Revenge

2.2.1. Absence of state punishment leads to revenge

3. Criminals

3.1. Crentes- woman who were new believers who believed they could help redeem someone from criminal life

3.2. Pedro Paulo

3.2.1. Believed if girl aborted his baby, he would have to kill her

3.2.2. Woman's responsible for consequences of having sex

3.2.3. Job of the man is to put food on table, woman to take care of family

4. Crime

4.1. Killing Streets

4.1.1. "City of Walls"

4.1.2. Extermination of "street children"

4.1.3. Children often recruited to do dirty work for criminals

4.1.3.1. Punishment is less severe

4.2. Middle/ Upper Class

4.2.1. "talk of crime" which feeds circle in which fear is dealt with and reproduced with violence

4.3. Local Gang

4.3.1. Many residents ambivalent, but recognized importance of gang

4.3.2. Struggle for young men to stay out of the way