Javier Auyero is the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long in Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas-Austin where he directs the Urban Ethnography Lab. His main areas of research, writing and teaching are urban poverty, political ethnography, and collective violence. Auyero was the editor of the journal Qualitative Sociology from 2005 to 2010. Katherine Sobering is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Texas. Her research examines inequality, politics and social change in the Americas. She is currently writing a book on organizational transformation and the construction of equality in worker-recuperated businesses in Argentina.

• Preface Introduction Chapter One: Clandestine Relations Matter Chapter Two: Drug Violence in the Streets and at Home Chapter Three: Collusion and Legal Cynicism Chapter Four: Establishing the "Arreglo" Chapter Five: Competition, Retaliation, and Violence Chapter Six: Patchworks of Protection Chapter Seven: Unpacking Collusion Conclusions References Endnotes

Javier Auyero is the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long in Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas-Austin where he directs the Urban Ethnography Lab. His main areas of research, writing and teaching are urban poverty, political ethnography, and collective violence. Auyero was the editor of the journal Qualitative Sociology from 2005 to 2010. Katherine Sobering is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Texas. Her research examines inequality, politics and social change in the Americas. She is currently writing a book on organizational transformation and the construction of equality in worker-recuperated businesses in Argentina.

• Preface Introduction Chapter One: Clandestine Relations Matter Chapter Two: Drug Violence in the Streets and at Home Chapter Three: Collusion and Legal Cynicism Chapter Four: Establishing the "Arreglo" Chapter Five: Competition, Retaliation, and Violence Chapter Six: Patchworks of Protection Chapter Seven: Unpacking Collusion Conclusions References Endnotes

Javier Auyero is the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long in Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas-Austin where he directs the Urban Ethnography Lab. His main areas of research, writing and teaching are urban poverty, political ethnography, and collective violence. Auyero was the editor of the journal Qualitative Sociology from 2005 to 2010. Katherine Sobering is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Texas. Her research examines inequality, politics and social change in the Americas. She is currently writing a book on organizational transformation and the construction of equality in worker-recuperated businesses in Argentina.

• Preface Introduction Chapter One: Clandestine Relations Matter Chapter Two: Drug Violence in the Streets and at Home Chapter Three: Collusion and Legal Cynicism Chapter Four: Establishing the "Arreglo" Chapter Five: Competition, Retaliation, and Violence Chapter Six: Patchworks of Protection Chapter Seven: Unpacking Collusion Conclusions References Endnotes