Introduction to Special issue: Brazilian Criminology in the 21st Century

• Date: 01 February 2022
• Published date: 01 February 2022
• Author: Vania Ceccato
• DOI: 10.1177/10439862211050450
• Subject Matter: Introduction

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Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

2022, Vol. 38(1) 4 –12

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Introduction

Introduction to Special issue:

Brazilian Criminology in the

21st Century

Vania Ceccato1

Abstract

This article introduces the special issue “Brazilian Criminology in the 21st Century”

that is composed of seven studies of contemporary security problems and related

public security initiatives in Brazil. They are multidisciplinary contributions employing

a large variety of methods, written by researchers based on Brazilian universities or

research executed in cooperation with international colleagues. This is a unique and

valuable reference source for researchers interested in Brazilian and Latin American

security challenges as well as attempts to address them. By recognizing current

barriers in knowledge production and sharing, the special issue calls for the creation

of new opportunities for joint knowledge from the “criminologies” of the Global

South and those from the Global North, befitting an inclusive global criminology

worthy of the 21st century.

Keywords

crime, safety, Brazilian criminalogy, Global South, multidisciplinary, barriers, publication,

knowledge sharing

Is There “a” Brazilian Criminology?

High homicide rates, drug trafficking, police violence, and high levels of fear are just

a few of Brazil’s security challenges (Caldeira, 2013; Cano, 2010; IPEA/FBSP, 2016;

Machado & Ceci, 2002; Naim, 2006). Together with crime prevention initiatives,

these problems occupy a large portion of the Brazilian criminological literature (e.g.,

Beato Filho, 1999; Cano et al., 2016; Kahn, 2007; Silveira et al., 2010). Yet, much of

this scholarship is unknown to most of the international research community, as most

1Department of urban planning and environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm,

Sweden

Corresponding Author:

Vania Ceccato, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Teknikringen 10A, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden.

Email: vania.ceccato@abe.kth.se

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