Les études sur la violence et la criminalité au Brésil et les processus de « pacification » dans deux métropoles brésiliennes

In this article I seek to give an introductory presentation to some studies of violence and criminality in Brazil, in order to consider two matters that have mobilized recent academic research: on the one hand, the impacts of public security policies on the management of daily life and the administration of conflicts brought by the adoption of a new model of “close policing” in Rio de Janeiro – the “Police Pacification Units” (UPP); on the other hand, the effects of relational ordering through practices and valuations that configure what has come to be known as the “world of crime”, especially with regards to the “discipline” of the “First Capital Command” (PCC) in the favelas and marginalised neighbourhoods of São Paulo