In Brazil, a poor, ragged kid running along an unpaved road in a favela or playing in a field of sugar cane is just a kid. That same child, transposed to the main streets and plazas of town, is a threat, a potentially dangerous “street kid.”
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Scheper‐Hughes et al. (1994) studied this question.
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