Abstract
This article approaches the relationships between members of the Andrade criminal networks and militias, mostly from the Jacarepaguá and Campo Grande neighborhoods. These criminal networks are known for jogo do bicho, an illegal gambling game in Brazil that operates like a lottery in which players bet on numbers that are associated with animals. The analyzed period extends from 1993 to 2008 and covers continuities and discontinuities in the relationships between Castor, his successors, Fernando and Rogério, and three military policemen who joined what I call the “first generation of militiamen”. Intersecting the theory of Criminal Networks with David Harvey’s work and the concept of Illegalism, the article attempts to present, in a synthetic fashion, the history of the territories, the markets that are registered there by the state and the illegality agents, and the intersection of personal and impersonal relations between members of criminal networks and the State.
jogo do bicho; militias; criminal networks; territory