-crime relationship. -- gun control ; violence ; informal employment ; cross-border spillover ; cartels …

"Laboratory experiments in psychology find that media violence increases aggression in the short run. We analyze … whether media violence affects violent crime in the field. We exploit variation in the violence of blockbuster movies from … attendance appears to reduce alcohol consumption. Like the laboratory experiments, we find indirect evidence that movie violence …

, in fact, reflect a general situation of high violence related to other kinds of crime in the country; as related to the … violence associated to robbery, for example, the numbers of UNDOC (2012) for 2010 put Brazil, with rates (occurrences per one … violence is neither the only substantive urban problem of Brazilian big urban centers, nor it is dissociated to other urban …