Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 7-1-2012
Journal / Book Title
The British Journal of Criminology
Abstract
High rates of homicide in Brazil are heavily concentrated in poor urban shanty towns or ‘favelas’. This paper looks beyond conventional social and economic explanations of homicides, and examines the relationship between situational factors and homicide incidents within a case-study favela in the city of Belo Horizonte. Initial exploratory research identified potential mechanisms linking local situational characteristics with homicide. A matched case–control study then tested hypotheses based on these mechanisms. When the characteristics of 100 addresses of homicide incidents were compared with those of 100 nearby non-homicide addresses, they showed statistical associations with drug areas, bars, alleys, windows onto the street and vehicular traffic, lending general empirical support to theorized situational mechanisms.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azs011
MSU Digital Commons Citation
De Souza Oliveira, Elenice De Souza and Miller, Joel, "Homicide in the Brazilian Favela: Does Opportunity Make the Killer?" (2012). Department of Justice Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 126.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/justice-studies-facpubs/126
Published Citation
De Souza, Elenice, and Joel Miller. "Homicide in the Brazilian Favela: does opportunity make the killer?." British Journal of Criminology 52, no. 4 (2012): 786-807.
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