Brazil ́s public security situation is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. The country ́s exceedingly high rates of violent crime are a product of structural institutional weaknesses in the criminal justice sector and aggravated by rou-tine political and economic crises. Rio de Janeiro is particularly vulnerable to outbreaks of criminal violence owing to failures in governance and systemic corruption together with competition between territorial drug factions and sharp socio-economic inequali-ties. Rio de Janeiro state and metropolitan region suffered a dramatic deterioration in security since 2016 and the situation is likely to worsen in the foreseeable future. It is unlikely that the return of the armed forces to the streets of Ri...
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa make up the so-called BRICS, five emerging economies w...
This thesis looks at the nature of violence with its endemic, and increasingly epidemic, presence in...
AROUND 45 thousand people are victims of lethal crime in Brazil, yearly. Most of the victims are you...
This article was published in the Fall 2009 issue of the Journal of Undergraduate Researc
Diminishing socio-economic inequality is a necessary but not sufficient condition for eliminating ot...
Over the past decade Brazil seems to have reinvented itself as a newly emerging power in the Global ...
International audienceThis paper analyses the recent measures taken by the Municipality of Rio de Ja...
Final paper submitted to the 2017 LSA Congress. The paper is a contribution of FGV/DAPP (Department ...
The author examines the main dimensions of urban violence in the case of Rio de Janeiro, which inclu...
article examines the possible relationship between democracy and perceptions of risk and safety in t...
Drug gangs and organized criminal groups rarely evolve into structured authorities governing their r...
This article discusses the changes in Visionário, a favela located near the affluent neighborhoods i...
For the past generation scholars have written about violence, crime, and conflict in Rio de Janeiro’...
This paper examines public policies based on the idea that situations in areas of social deprivation...
This paper examines public policies based on the idea that situations in areas of social deprivation...
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa make up the so-called BRICS, five emerging economies w...
This thesis looks at the nature of violence with its endemic, and increasingly epidemic, presence in...
AROUND 45 thousand people are victims of lethal crime in Brazil, yearly. Most of the victims are you...
This article was published in the Fall 2009 issue of the Journal of Undergraduate Researc
Diminishing socio-economic inequality is a necessary but not sufficient condition for eliminating ot...
Over the past decade Brazil seems to have reinvented itself as a newly emerging power in the Global ...
International audienceThis paper analyses the recent measures taken by the Municipality of Rio de Ja...
Final paper submitted to the 2017 LSA Congress. The paper is a contribution of FGV/DAPP (Department ...
The author examines the main dimensions of urban violence in the case of Rio de Janeiro, which inclu...
article examines the possible relationship between democracy and perceptions of risk and safety in t...
Drug gangs and organized criminal groups rarely evolve into structured authorities governing their r...
This article discusses the changes in Visionário, a favela located near the affluent neighborhoods i...
For the past generation scholars have written about violence, crime, and conflict in Rio de Janeiro’...
This paper examines public policies based on the idea that situations in areas of social deprivation...
This paper examines public policies based on the idea that situations in areas of social deprivation...
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa make up the so-called BRICS, five emerging economies w...
This thesis looks at the nature of violence with its endemic, and increasingly epidemic, presence in...
AROUND 45 thousand people are victims of lethal crime in Brazil, yearly. Most of the victims are you...