Stolen Carsis an innovative ethnography of urban inequalities and violence in São Paulo, Brazil.Organized around the journeys of five stolen cars, each chapter discusses a specific theme, such as the distinctions between violent robbery and the more commercial non-violent theft or the role of national borders interconnecting illegal and legal economiesProvides an original theoretical framework for a rarely studied urban and transnational supply chainDraws from empirical data and a combination of different methodologies to demonstrate mechanisms of urban inequalities and violence reproductionHighlights how everyday life is entangled with structural urban transformationsUses an ethnographic narrative to show how urban development produce various forms of illegality and violent crime