Agencies such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),
the United Nations and the World Bank continue to privilege national over municipal …

Between 1980 and 2010 there were 1 million homicides in Brazil. Dramatic increases in
homicide rates followed rises in inequality, more young men in the population, greater …

We hold many assumptions about police work—that it is the responsibility of the state, or that
police officers are given the right to kill in the name of public safety or self-defense. But in …

Urban scaling relations characterizing how diverse properties of cities vary on average with
their population size have recently been shown to be a general quantitative property of …

This groundbreaking work examines Latin America's prison crisis and the failure of mass
incarceration policies. As crime rates rose over the past few decades, policy makers adopted …

Los homicidios ocurren en todo el mundo, pero no están homogéneamente distribuidos,
cambian por zonas geográficas: continentes, países, regiones; en periodos de tiempo …

A Southern Criminology of Violence, Youth and Policing examines public experiences of
insecurity and the social impacts of security programmes that aim to address violence in …

OBJETIVO: Descrever a evolução da mortalidade por homicídios no Município de São
Paulo segundo tipo de arma, sexo, raça ou cor, idade e áreas de exclusão/inclusão social …

Methodological issues that must be considered in doing research on the New York City
crime drop include the choice of a spatial unit of analysis, the choice of a mathematical …

The problems of violence in Latin America are often reiterated, yet understanding how and
why violence declines is far less common. While urban violence takes different forms and …