This paper analyzes the phenomenon of the use of police force and gender moralities in training and professional practices of police women. The central question is how physical and lethal force produces contradictions ...

This article analyzes the creation and development of the São Paulo police force during the early years of the republican regime. In a period of political change and turbulence, institutional upheaval (uprising of the Navy ...

Since the 1990s, every proclamation for police reform in Latin America leads to the launching of a community policing programme designed to improve policecommunity relations. Each of these programmes has a different name ...

This article examines the challenges involved in the process of police militarization and implementation of police discipline in the State of São Paulo during the First Brazilian Republic (1889 to 1930). The implementation ...

This article examines the challenges involved in the process of police militarization and implementation of police discipline in the State of São Paulo during the First Brazilian Republic (1889 to 1930). The implementation ...

Brazil has not surpassed its ghosts from the past experience of dictatorship. The democratic normality is not been fully accomplished, in spite of the formal democracy and the rule of law consecration. The country was not ...

An important challenge in the crime literature is to isolate causal effects of police on crime. Following a terrorist attack on the main Jewish center in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 1994, all Jewish ...