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As a result, the Cape Verdean prison population has more than doubled over the same period. In the capital city of Praia, more and more youths from the disadvantaged periphery find themselves behind bars, serving long sentences for mostly drug- and gang-related crimes, in what seems to be a replication of the experience of many Cape Verdean immigrants in Portugal and elsewhere. In a personal fieldwork account, the article sketches out parallels between the experiences of immigrant youth in Portugal and marginalized youth in Cape Verde, and discusses the way the Cape Verdean state is presently dealing with the phenomenon of \u2018youth delinquency\u2019. Essentialist notions of the country\u2019s supposed culture of \u2018 morabeza\u2019 (gentleness) are confronted with actual patterns of symbolic and physical violence, revealing a persistent unwillingness of Cape Verdean public discourse to face up to the country\u2019s growing structural socioeconomic disequilibrium. <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1177\/1367877914528530","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,5,9]],"date-time":"2014-05-09T06:14:52Z","timestamp":1399616092000},"page":"391-406","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["<i>Morabeza<\/i>, cash or body: Prison, violence and the state in Praia, Cape Verde"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Peter Anton","family":"Zoettl","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"CRIA, Lisbon University Institute, Portugal"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,5,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"bibr1-1367877914528530","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1590\/S0104-026X2005000100011"},{"key":"bibr2-1367877914528530","volume-title":"Direitos humanos nas pris\u00f5es de Cabo Verde","author":"ASDZM","year":"2000"},{"key":"bibr3-1367877914528530","first-page":"169","volume":"30","author":"Bordonaro L","year":"2010","journal-title":"Direito e Cidadania"},{"key":"bibr4-1367877914528530","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.21669\/tomo.v0i21.898"},{"key":"bibr5-1367877914528530","first-page":"83","volume-title":"Jovens e trajet\u00f3rias de viol\u00eancias. 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