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The present study’s objective is to analyze the violence reduction impacts of the Program Community School (Programa … classification of different forms of violence is carried out. Additionally, there is a discussion about the violence causes on the … basis of different theories. Subsequently, it is presented a relation between violence and school based on an exposition of …
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In this article we investigate the capacity of antecedent variables, among them admissions for aggression, in the prediction of the number of homicides in Brazil. The main objective is to eliminate a gap regarding the large time lag in the dissemination of information about these deaths in the...
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There is a consensus that the proportion of suicides committed with a firearm is the best proxy for gun ownership prevalence. Cerqueira et al. (2018) exploit the socioeconomic characteristics of suicide victims in order to develop a new and more refined proxy. It is based on the fixed effects of...
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This paper aims to measure violence costs in Belo Horizonte. We use accountability methodology to estimate violence …,000,000 (eight hundred and thirty five millions of reais) is the amount lost due to violence in Belo Horizonte. This value represents …
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There is virtually a consensus that the ratio of suicides committed with guns to total suicides is the best way to indirectly measure gun ownership across different locations. However, such a proxy is not accurate for any locality with low population density in view that suicides are rare...
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the seriousness of the problem of gender violence in Brazil and highlights the need to produce more accurate information …
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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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