Violence, crime, public security, and criminal justice in Brazil

a bibliography

Abstract

This review discusses the Brazilian social sciences bibliography in the areas of crime, urban violence, criminal justice, and public security, initially demonstrating a significant increase in these themes in recent years, the wide variety of thematic sub-areas involved in this growth, and the complexity of an analytical perspective that seeks a comparative integration of the various approaches. The article then discusses the thematic production in urban crime, criminal justice, and public security policies and their relationship to urban represen­tations of growing violence aired by the media.