The Christian Science Monitor – President Obama’s executive action on gun control may have reenergized a polarizing debate in the US, but it offered cautious hope in Mexico this week.
El Siglo Durango – Un alto porcentaje de las armas que alimentan al crimen organizado en México llegan legales. Y en su mayoría vienen desde Estados Unidos
Al Jazeera – As drug gangs encroach on old turf, residents hope New Year brings lasting peace – and better basic services
Independent – There are better ways to manage our cities. How about an effort to deal with poverty itself?
The Wire – India records the second highest number of murders in the world every year
The Jerusalem Post – “In Israel, we don’t feel threatened with imminent violence. The feeling of security with our police and army plus unity of the population reinforces the generalized feeling that we are not alone.”
Last night’s Question Time panel followed the House of Commons in debating Syria and whether Britain should be bombing there
After nearly three years of peace negotiations, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) announced a final peace accord would be signed before March 23, 2016
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s commitment toward major drug law reform is a welcome if belated recognition that when it comes to marijuana, Canada has been an emperor with no clothes for several years
India has reached the second largest number of homicides in the world, which policies should be applied in order to reverse these statistics?
Americas Quarterly – Economic growth alone won’t stem violent crime. But the right policies – and leadership – can make a difference
The Conversation – The argument for the use of police body cameras is gaining momentum in South Africa, amid growing demand for greater police accountability
TeleSURtv – Brazil is suffering from an epidemic of gun violence, with more than 4,000 people killed this year in the state of Rio de Janeiro
The Cape Town Dialogue included a number of in-depth discussions about crime and violence prevention in urban communities.
O Globo – Documento feito por três ONGs aponta ainda que a maioria é de fabricação nacional e de calibre permitido
On a Saturday morning, in a group of Rio de Janeiro’s notoriously violent shanty towns, or favelas, heavily armed pacification police stand on one side of the street, on the other side, protestors call for them to withdraw.
On the protest side, Mayse Freitas lists the people she knows who have been injured or killed in shootouts in the area recently.
“I’m a mother and a grandmother,” Freitas says. “I don’t want my children or grandchildren to be next.”
SK Football – The game of football holds a larger than life status in the country of Brazil. The prevalence of the sport in Brazilian culture is so ubiquitous that there is probably not a single stretch of land left in the country where a ball has not been rolled
Desde o início do ano, policiais de UPPs cariocas vêm testando celulares com câmeras que, instalados no bolso da frente do uniforme, gravam e arquivam tudo o que é visto e ouvido durante o serviço
O Globo – Sony, a Target, Home Depot, Staples e JP Morgan. Nos últimos anos, todas essas companhias estrangeiras foram vítimas de grandes ataques hackers que levaram ao vazamento de milhões de dados
O julgamento que discutirá se o uso de drogas para o consumo próprio deve ser considerado crime, ou não, será feito pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) nesta quinta-feira
O Globo – Pode haver uma quantidade de droga que diferencie o usuário do traficante? Países como Colômbia, Holanda e México têm diversos limites tolerados por lei para o porte de maconha, por exemplo. Esta poderá ser uma das questões em discussão no Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) a partir de hoje, durante o julgamento que definirá se portar drogas para consumo pessoal no Brasil continuará sendo crime
Estadão Brasil – O plenário do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) julgará nesta quinta-feira, 13, uma ação que pode resultar na descriminalização das drogas para consumo próprio.
O Globo – A iminência do julgamento no Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) de recurso extraordinário que pode descriminalizar o porte de drogas para uso próprio impeliu um grupo de especialistas das áreas médica, jurídica e criminal a dar um novo passo no debate.
This Dispatch offers several practical recommendations to reduce homicidal violence by 50% in the next thirty years.
Detectives in Manaus are investigating whether police death squads or criminal gangs were involved in a rash of execution-style killings that left 35 people dead in just three days. As the authorities flooded the streets with officers to reassure a nervous public, city officials were
Thanks to the technology revolution, policing in Brazil and around the world is changing
Children’s perceptions of violence are an essential input when it comes to designing, implementing and monitoring prevention policies and programmes
Para Ilona Szabó, fundadora do Instituto Igarapé, especializado em em segurança pública, a melhor resposta para a questão é a reformulação das atuais políticas públicas que tratam do problema
Violent crime is deeply entrenched in some developing countries, particularly in Latin America. Our experts offer these solutions to bringing down high rates
Se por um lado demos um passo importante para garantir a vida de nossas crianças durante seus primeiros anos, por outro, fracassamos em evitar o trágico destino de morte violenta para muitas destas crianças na segunda década de suas vidas
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