National violence data
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National violence data

As usual, there is lots of valuable data and analysis of crime in this year’s Atlas da Violência, published by IPEA in conjunction with the Fórum Brasileiro de Segurança Pública, with data through 2018. The report highlights that homicides have begun declining back to 2011 levels. While this is of course good news,...
October 9, 2020Posted inSocial
The horror of youth homicides
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The horror of youth homicides

The post below is mirrored from our companion site, the AULABlog. It was co-authored by Beatriz Rey, a CLALS Research Fellow from Brazil and contributor to this blog. Gun-related violence against Brazilian children and teenagers has been alarmingly high for years – rising to 9,818 in 2017 and 8,253 in 2018 –...
October 1, 2020Posted inSocial