Crime as a factor of urban change: a study on public security policies in Rio de Janeiro.

un estudio sobre las políticas de seguridad pública en Río de Janeiro

Authors

  • LIVIO SILVA DE OLIVEIRA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48075/ra.v4i2.15172

Keywords:

Territorio – UPP - Criminalización – Rotulación.

Abstract

 

Public safety has gained more and more space on the agenda of the Public Administration in Brazil and demanded new ways of fighting against crime, becoming a subject of sociological interest. This work aims to analyze the process of development and implementation of the Pacifying Police Units (UPP) in the city of Rio de Janeiro. To understand the format of this model police became a historical and sociological effort urbanization’s process of Rio de Janeiro and criminalization of marginalized people of that city. Since the concept of labeling, in the theory of deviance, defended by Taylor, Walton and Young, British School of Critical Criminology; contradictions and perspectives on the social reaction against crime and its correlation with social factors were analyzed.

Keywords: Territory - UPP - Criminalization - Labeling

Published

16-03-2017

How to Cite

OLIVEIRA, L. S. D. Crime as a factor of urban change: a study on public security policies in Rio de Janeiro.: un estudio sobre las políticas de seguridad pública en Río de Janeiro. Alamedas, [S. l.], v. 4, n. 2, 2017. DOI: 10.48075/ra.v4i2.15172. Disponível em: https://saber.unioeste.br/index.php/alamedas/article/view/15172. Acesso em: 19 apr. 2025.

Issue

Section

Artigos e Ensaios