TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Being crime: Youth violence and criminal identities in Bahia, Brazil
JO  - Ethnography
A1  - Zoettl, Peter Anton
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1466-1381
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14661381221115191
ID  - ref1
ER  -