{"product_id":"downtown-juzarez-underworlds-of-violence-and-abuse-9781477323892","title":"Downtown Juárez: Underworlds of Violence and Abuse","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt least 200,000 people have died in Mexico's so-called drug war, and the worst suffering has been in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. How did it get so bad? After three decades studying that question, Howard Campbell doesn't believe there is any one answer. Misguided policies, corruption, criminality, and the borderland economy are all factors. But none of these reasons explain how violence in downtown Juárez has become heartbreakingly \"normal.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA rigorous yet moving account, \u003ci\u003eDowntown Juárez\u003c\/i\u003e is informed by the sex workers, addicts, hustlers, bar owners, human smugglers, migrants, and down-and-out workers struggling to survive in an underworld where horrifying abuses have come to seem like the natural way of things. Even as Juárez's elite northeast section thrives on the profits of multinational corporations, and law-abiding citizens across the city mobilize against crime and official malfeasance, downtown's cantinas, barrios, and brothels are tyrannized by misery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCampbell's is a chilling perspective, suggesting that, over time, violent acts feed off each other, losing their connection to any specific cause. \u003ci\u003eDowntown Juárez\u003c\/i\u003e documents this banality of evil--and confronts it--with the stories of those most affected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHoward Campbell is a professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso. He is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eDrug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Ju?rez\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50861748879634,"sku":"9781477323892","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_20c65648-3b7d-4066-b4d4-2cd005a38990.jpg?v=1737605095","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/downtown-juzarez-underworlds-of-violence-and-abuse-9781477323892","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}