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Living Conditions of the Poor in Latin America

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Robert Gay
Robert Gay*
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Connecticut College
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , 2012 , pp. 200 - 207
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Copyright © 2012 by the Latin American Studies Association

References

1. Loïc Wacquant, “Toward a Dictatorship over the Poor? Notes on the Penalization of Poverty in Brazil,” Punishment & Society 5, no. 2 (2003): 197–205.