What is it about?
This paper provides an overview of crime/violence trends in urban/rural Brazil in 3 different spatial levels: nation, state and municipality. The article combines both secondary datasources as well as information published in the media in the last few years. The article finalises calling for a better understading of urban-rural crime trends, the need to consider the regional context as well as phenomenon that goes beyond boundaries and municipal or country boundaries.
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Why is it important?
Makes a set of urban-rural crime stats at three genographical levels available to the reader Highlights media accounts of rural-urban areas in Brazil Summarises many interesting articles and reports that were published only in Portuguese.
Perspectives
There is no other paper like it. This article puts rural-crime trends in Brazil in a international perspective - perhaps this is the first article written in English with a Global South perspective to safety issues in rural-urban environments. Fun working in family. We worked together but separeted by the Atlantic ocean. I was in Stockholm Sweden and Heloise in Rio Claro, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Data collection (particulalry police data) was time demanding.
Professor Vania Ceccato
Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan
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This page is a summary of: Violence in the Rural Global South, Criminal Justice Review, September 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0734016817724504.
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