In informal urban areas throughout the developing world, and even in some US and UK
neighborhoods, tens if not hundreds of millions of people live under some form of criminal …

This article aims to analyze the evolution of Brazilian criminal organization Primeiro
Comando da Capital (PCC—First Command of the Capital), especially its transformation …

States, rebels, and mafias all provide governance beyond their core membership;
increasingly, so do prison gangs. US gangs leverage control over prison life to govern street …

Stolen Cars is 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 …

Este texto tem por objetivo associar o debate teórico e acadêmico ao panorama da
segurança pública no Brasil, destacando pontos da agenda da área que seriam prioritários …

State efforts to provide law and order can be counterproductive: mass-incarceration policies,
while incapacitating and deterring individual criminals, can simultaneously strengthen …

In several Latin American countries, social violence has risen to warlike levels.
Nevertheless, little attention has been paid to the extent of social violence and the new …

RESUMO O artigo propõe uma explicação para as variações das taxas de homicídios no
Brasil nas duas últimas décadas. A partir da comparação de experiências etnográficas …

This article analyzes the practice and implications of criminal governance through the
effective exercise of a system of parallel justice. It is examined the case of the Brazilian gang …

The number of major Drug Trafficking Organizations (known as cartels) in Mexico increased
from four to nine over the last two decades. This was accompanied by an increase in drug …