Brendan Marsh, PhD, lives and works in Northern Ireland, where he is Marie Curie Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast. His areas of interest are violence and illegal drug markets, desistance from crime, and processes of religious and political radicalisation that lead to violence.

"The book should, rightly, become a classic work of criminological ethnography. It is clear-eyed, empathetic and honest, combining deep cultural knowledge with a flinty analytical edge to produce what is an authoritative account of the causes and consequences of violence in drug markets."Alistair Fraser, University of Glasgow, UK, Theoretical Criminology

• 1. Introduction 2. Order from Chaos 3. Addiction, Violence, and the Street 4. Debts, Deaths, and more Debts 5. Violent Transactions 6. Dominance and Desistance 7. Conclusion: The Logic of Violence

Brendan Marsh, PhD, lives and works in Northern Ireland, where he is Marie Curie Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast. His areas of interest are violence and illegal drug markets, desistance from crime, and processes of religious and political radicalisation that lead to violence.

"The book should, rightly, become a classic work of criminological ethnography. It is clear-eyed, empathetic and honest, combining deep cultural knowledge with a flinty analytical edge to produce what is an authoritative account of the causes and consequences of violence in drug markets."Alistair Fraser, University of Glasgow, UK, Theoretical Criminology

• 1. Introduction 2. Order from Chaos 3. Addiction, Violence, and the Street 4. Debts, Deaths, and more Debts 5. Violent Transactions 6. Dominance and Desistance 7. Conclusion: The Logic of Violence

Brendan Marsh, PhD, lives and works in Northern Ireland, where he is Marie Curie Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast. His areas of interest are violence and illegal drug markets, desistance from crime, and processes of religious and political radicalisation that lead to violence.

"The book should, rightly, become a classic work of criminological ethnography. It is clear-eyed, empathetic and honest, combining deep cultural knowledge with a flinty analytical edge to produce what is an authoritative account of the causes and consequences of violence in drug markets."Alistair Fraser, University of Glasgow, UK, Theoretical Criminology

• 1. Introduction 2. Order from Chaos 3. Addiction, Violence, and the Street 4. Debts, Deaths, and more Debts 5. Violent Transactions 6. Dominance and Desistance 7. Conclusion: The Logic of Violence