Homicide in So Paulo: An Examination of Trends from 1960-2010 [Paperback]

This volume aims to explain the mechanisms for the epidemic-like rise in homicide rates S?o Paulo, Brazil during the late 20th century as well as their sharp decrease after 2000. The homicide rates increased 900 percent from 1960s-2000, and then dropped relatively quickly to 1970s levels over the next decade. While the author finds the Brazilian military government and rise of para-military police forces to be a major factor in the rise of homicide rates in Brazil, research on violent crime trends has demonstrated that it is generally due to the intersection of many factors (for example changes in policing, social or political structures, availability of weapons, economic influences) rather than a single cause.?This work integrates individual, neighborhood, and structural dynamics at play in both the rise and drop in homicide rates, and provides a framework for understanding similar phenomena in other regions, particularly in the developing world.?

Homicide in S?o Paulo: An Examination of Trends from 1960- 2010 is an excellent supplement to the existing academic resources on the 60-year examination of the rise and fall of the homicide rate in S?o Paulo. Mansos work contributes to the existing studies by using interviews of killers to explore the changing social nature of homicide. The book is most likely to appeal to political scientists, criminologists, sociologists and academics in Latin American studies. (Kimberly M. Pitts, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu, May, 2017)

Bruno Paes Manso, has an Economics degree (University of S?o Paulo, Brazil) and journalism (PUC-SP). He worked for ten lă9