@article{ref1,
title="Being crime: Youth violence and criminal identities in Bahia, Brazil",
journal="Ethnography",
year="2022",
author="Zoettl, Peter Anton",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="In Brazil, a growing number of young citizens from the socioeconomic periphery embark on a career in crime, earning their living by armed robbery or selling drugs. Through the life stories and narratives of inmates of a juvenile prison in the state of Bahia, the article anatomizes what makes these young men take up and stick to a life in conflict with the law, despite the limited profits and substantial hardships involved. I argue that the experience of violence, both suffered and perpetrated, is central to the forging of the youths? criminal identities, and their persistent failure to change their life trajectories.  Keywords: Juvenile justice <p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1466-1381",
doi="10.1177/14661381221115191",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14661381221115191"
}