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Crime and violence in Brazil: Systematic review of time trends, prevalence rates and risk factors

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Murray, Joseph, Cerqueira, Daniel Ricardo de Castro, Kahn, Tulio·2013·Aggression and Violent Behavior
DOI 10.1016/j.avb.2013.07.003PMC PMC3763365
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Between 1980 and 2010 there were 1 million homicides in Brazil. Dramatic increases in homicide rates followed rises in inequality, more young men in the population, greater availability of firearms, and increased drug use. Nevertheless, disarmament legislation may have helped reduce homicide rates in recent years. Despite its very high rate of lethal violence, Brazil appears to have similar levels of general criminal victimization as several other Latin American and North American countries. Brazil has lower rates of drug use compared to other countries such as the United States, but the prevalence of youth drug use in Brazil has increased substantially in recent years. Since 1990, the growth of the Brazilian prison population has been enormous, resulting in the fourth largest prison population in the world. Through a systematic review of the literature, we identified 10 studies assessing the prevalence of self-reported offending in Brazil and 9 studies examining risk factors. Levels of self-reported offending seem quite high among school students in Brazil. Individual and family-level risk factors identified in Brazil are very similar to those found in high-income countries.

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Authors
Murray, J., Cerqueira, D. R. D. C., & Kahn, T.
Affiliations
  • University of Cambridge (GB)
  • Institute of Applied Economic Research (BR)
Corresponding author
Murray, Joseph
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Venue
Aggression and Violent Behavior
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2013-09
Volume
18
Issue
5
Pages
471-483
ISSN
1359-1789 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.avb.2013.07.003
PMC
PMC3763365
OpenAlex
W2144498450
Cited by
232
References
74
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2026: 12 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 33 · 2020: 36 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 25 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 7
FWCI
6.80
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Aggression and Violent Behavior (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Wellcome Trust (089963/Z/09/Z)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Social Sciences › Health › Gun Ownership and Violence Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Youth, Drugs, and Violence
Keywords
crime, violence, homicide, Brazil, temporal trends, risk factors, self-reported offending, school students, inequality, drug use, adolescent substance use, prison population, crime victimization

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