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This study is part of Brasil 2035 a project whose objective is to provide subsidies to formulate long-term strategies for Brazil through Prospective Scenarios. The present text uses the prospective methodology, in order to present tendencies and uncertainties for public security. The article is...
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The present work aims to analyze characteristics of home entries in criminal proceedings involving drug crimes, in order to determine whether home policing, within the context of drug policies, selectively or geographically segregates defendants who face the criminal justice system. Based on...
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This article verifies the different effects of legal repression over homicide rates across Brazilian states. We analyze … relation to 100,000 inhabitants) and deterrence (rate of police officers in relation to 100,000 inhabitants). We use both … different police strategies can have different impact over the homicide rate, which contradicts the study of Levitt (2004 …
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affect the demand for labor in cities. We found the following results over homicide rate: i) positive effect of men …
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Using data for the 27 Brazilian states during the period 1980-2009, we found that the media index in an important determinant of the suicide rates. The econometric results suggest that an increase of 1% in the media index increases the suicide rate for young males (age between 15 and 29 years...
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This paper exploits the diversity of panels at the court of appeals in the state of Sao Paulo to address the role of career backgrounds and ideology in shaping the response of judicial decisions to a major criminal reform, enacted under Law 12,403/2011, which tightens the requirements for...
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In this article, the rape notifications registered in Brazil between 2011 and 2014 were analyzed based on data from the Notifiable Conditions Information System (Sinan) of the Ministry of Health. The phenomenon was also characterized according to these administrative records. More specifically,...
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negative relationship between homicide rates and the expenditure on the Bolsa Família and indicate that the Program may have …
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