This article verifies the different effects of legal repression over homicide rates across Brazilian states. We analyze … different police strategies can have different impact over the homicide rate, which contradicts the study of Levitt (2004 … incarceration rate over homicide rate. …

affect the demand for labor in cities. We found the following results over homicide rate: i) positive effect of men …

After the year 2000 homicides data shows an increasing in Brazil. Our attention directed to quantify those who are … survivors or co-victims of homicide. Our initial exercise is a methodology to calculate the quantity of survivors from homicide … against afro Brazilian black people. In 2010, for each homicide of an afro Brazilian black youth a minimum of 5 to 6 people …

nationwide database that allows calculating the annual homicide rates for each Federative Unit (FU) since 1980. Concerning to …

for Brazil through Prospective Scenarios. The present text uses the prospective methodology, in order to present …

prediction of the number of homicides in Brazil. The main objective is to eliminate a gap regarding the large time lag in the …