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Desacatos
On-line version ISSN 2448-5144Print version ISSN 1607-050X
Abstract
KESSLER, Gabriel. De proveedores, amigos, vecinos y barderos: Acerca del trabajo, delito y sociabilidad en jóvenes del Gran Buenos Aires. Desacatos [online]. 2004, n.14, pp.60-84. ISSN 2448-5144.
This article is based on an piece of research among young people from Greater Buenos Aires who commit crimes against property. In the first place, the article analyzes the impact of extended instability and precariousness of labor in the passage from workman's logic to that of the supplier The latter expresses the articulation of different resources which are placed between work and crime, showing the emergence of a segment of population that combines legal and illegal actions in order to survive. Secondly, the paper studies the sociability of these young people, pointing out their particularities in comparison with gangs presented in studies on other latitudes. Lastly, the article is interested in the relationship with neighbors; the dilemmas about stealing or not within the neighborhood, and the neighbors' strategies to make their relationship with these young people normal and foreseeable.