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Gang Violence in Brazil's Northeast: Notes for a Debate

A lecture by Jose Luiz Ratton,Professor of Sociology at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE)

Monday, March 09, 2009
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
1301 Rolfe Hall
Los Angeles, CA United States

Professor Ratton coordinates the Center for the Study and Research of Crime, Violence, and Politics at UFPE. He is currently a Special Advisor to the Governor of Pernambuco. He is the author of Violence and Crime in Modern Brazil (1996), Police, Democracy, and Society (2007), and a number of essays and papers on sociology and violence in Brazil.

Cost: Free and open to the public

For more information please contact

Gloria Tovar
gtovar@international.ucla.edu

Sponsor(s): Latin American Institute, Center for Brazilian Studies, Spanish and Portuguese