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. …

officers over the homicide rates. Overall, our results suggest that the increase in both the incarceration rate and the number …

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

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 … were affected, causing a total of 82.535 survivors. At the same year, over 4 to 5 people were indirect victims of homicide …

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

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. …