10 years of field research in part financed by the ministry of justice, the centro nacional de desenvolvimento científico e tecnológico - cnpq, and pronex, resulted in a collection of valuable accounts of urban violence, poverty, and drug trafficking.

integração perversa: pobreza e tráfico de drogas is available via livraria resposta on this link, via livraria saraiva on this link, and can be found on google books here. 

published by edições loyola, the utopia of a community - rio das pedras, a favela carioca (a utopia da comunidade - rio das pedras, uma favela carioca), by marcelo baumann burgos is the result of rigorous academic research and insightful intellectual engagement., which helps democratize information about the city of Rio. The author adds to the contemporary discourse on core topics related to the slums, such as social control, community, poverty, inequality and citizenship.