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'Pedagogy of Precariousness': The Experiences of Young People in a Violence Prevention Project on the Outskirts of the Greater Vitória Metropolitan Area analyzes the experiences of young people in the Projeto Proteção de Jovens em Território Vulnerável (Protejo), implemented in 2019 in the Jardim Carapina neighborhood, on the outskirts of the Greater Vitória Metropolitan Area, Espírito Santo. Starting from a qualitative methodology, it was understood that the project, based on the premises of citizen security, aims to prevent violence that affects young people in urban peripheries through "social" actions and the promotion of citizenship. However, the participants' experiences indicate a long distance between the project's objectives and its practices, which was conceived in terms of a "pedagogy of precariousness". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

David Garland and the Brazilian Public Safety proposes a critical reflection on David Garland's contribution to the understanding of the field of crime control in Brazil, inquiring about the applicability of his premises and concepts. To this end, the main works and ideas of the British sociologist were studied. Next, the trajectory and peculiarities of the Brazilian public security subsystem (BPSS), since the 1990s, were examined. Finally, the similarities and differences of the Brazilian context in relation to the trends pointed out by Garland were highlighted, as well as the existence of a mix between repressive/punitive and preventive/guarantee ideas and practices in the BPSS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

deals with the functioning of the criminal justice system in Brazilian society. The objective is to analyze the dynamics of processing the crime of rape of vulnerable people in a large capital in terms of decision-making by each actor of criminal justice. A reconstitution of the flow in cases of rape of vulnerable people in Belo Horizonte between 2015 to 2020 was carried out, from the occurrence registered by the Police to the court decision. The main empirical evidence obtained was the loose articulation between the organizations that make up the criminal justice apparatus as one of the causes of the fragility and inefficiency of the system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the impact of new technologies on ostensive policing, with a focus on racial issues. The São Paulo military police is studied using a varied methodology, that made it possible to analyze the results of policing on the groups of color/race and police officers' perceptions of institutional racism. Police brutality, new technologies and racism are associated with the maintenance of racialized practices for identifying suspects, projecting meaning onto some black corporalities and identity marks. New technologies have reinforced this kind of profiling and have failed to contribute to the control of police action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Legitimating Pacification: An Analysis of Journalistic Coverage on the UPPs analyzes the coverage of O Globo about the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs), published between 2008 and 2016. For this, the methodology of the interpretative packages (GAMSON and MODIGLIANI, 1989) was used, based on Goffman's (2012) concept of frame analysis and applied by Beckett (1997) to analyze articles on crime and violence, adapting it to the contemporary and local context. It was sought to investigate how certain themes gain visibility, instead of others and how such themes are framed through privileged points of view in place of many possible others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Managerial-Militarized Logic and Public Safety in Rio de Janeiro: CICC-RJ and the State's (Re)Building Technologies analyzes the relation between the development and reinforcement of a managerial-militarized model of thinking and organizing public safety and the technological system built for the mega-events that took place in Rio. The creation of the Integrated Center of Command and Control (CICC) is analyzed as a strategy to produce and stabilize relations among agents and institutions that ended up gathering elements of a new military urbanism, a New Public Management, and benchmarking strategies. This arrangement was further consolidated by the Federal military intervention in Rio de Janeiro's public safety between February and December of 2018. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The sustained increase in demands of citizens for greater security, along with the emergence of new information technologies, has given a predominant place to crime statistics. However, data collection is a complex task, and not a scarce one for discussion. The tools used to measure violence and crime levels are in constant debate, as are the sources of information available. In Public Security and Politics: An Analysis of Data in the City of Buenos Aires, we aim to make a diagnosis and an evaluation of the online and public access information systems on public security in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires between 2011 and 2016. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]