This dissertation investigates the determinants of victimization in the neighborhoods of three state capitals, with an emphasis on mechanisms that foster the development of various forms of social control in interaction. ...

O objetivo do trabalho é verificar empiricamente a influência da desorganização familiar nas taxas de homicídios dos municípios do Brasil. Com base na literatura clássica da economia do crime, a melhora no cenário econômico ...

The study of "places" has recently received special attention as a research topic in contemporary criminology. To understand the variation of violence across space, realizing the interrelations between structural properties ...

The widespread ,image of disorganization that has been atributed to the Brazilian society has inspired the empirical, investigation of the incidence of psychosocial dimensions, associated to that characteristic, on a, group ...

This dissertation investigates the Robert Sampson's concept of collective efficacy through quantitative analysis of data from the First National Victimization Survey (PNV). The proposal is to discuss and evaluate the ...

The criminal fiel of study dedicated to verify the distribution of crimes space has become increasingly important in academic works. The relationship between structural features and play criminal pattern that is present ...

The proposal here is an analysis of the formation of urban spaces of uses of crack in the neighborhood of Lagoinha, central region of Belo Horizonte, capital of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Known as "Cracolandias", these territories ...

Esse trabalho consiste na descrição de um fenômeno que corresponde aos modos de representação da periferia na mídia, principalmente na televisiva. Para isso, lança mão da análise do programa Central da Periferia, exibido ...