Aline Gatto Boueri

New perspectives for youth at risk in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, as alternative sentencing program takes off under the auspices of the NAI or Núcleo de Atendimento Integrado, (Integrated Care Center).

Aline Gatto Boueri

Landmark recommendation privileges alternative sentencing for children and youths in Brazil. Over 50% of the youths sentenced are currently in custody.

Aline Gatto Boueri

“Police and Youth” program in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, bridges a divide and lowers crime rates in local communities. The initiative will be taken to other Brazilian cities in the grip of violent crime, and is the subject of a documentary film.

Aline Gatto Boueri

Research evaluates motivation for women and girls to join in armed violence, and the ways in which they relate to the issue. Seminar participants demand more data from government sources.

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A COAV survey of newspapers across Brazil on teen gangs, the drug trade and armed violence finds that violence is not restricted to urban conglomerates such as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Smaller cities previously thought to be immune to gang activities such as Porto Velho, Teresina, Cuiabá and Florianópolis have been hit with rising rates of gun violence.

Lis Moriconi

Rio de Janeiro based researchers Jessica Galeria and Tatiana Moura reconsider traditional myopic views on women’s roles in armed violence, and bring them into the horizon of public policy and scientific investigation.

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Brazil’s Social Justice Network issues human rights report calling attention to the unacceptable number of deaths in the countryside and cases of police corruption in the big cities. The 2005 survey is a collaboration of journalists, lawyers, researchers, social workers and activists that focuses on agrarian reform, slave labor, the homeless and juvenile justice.

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The multimedia project "Até Quando?" was created to bring information to a larger public and stimulate discussion about the violent daily life of poor neighborhoods in Rio. The photos were taken by students of the School for Grassroots Photographers Images of the People.

Carola Mittrany

A report by the NGO Justicia y Paz entitled “Youths executed in Cazuca and Ciudad Bolívar” denounces the execution of 1000 youths and the disappearance of 620 “with the indifference and complicity of the forces of the State” in a region dominated by Colombian paramilitary forces.

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A study by the Latin American School of Social Sciences of Chile says juvenile violence must be understood in light of deeper underlying social factors “not necessarily directly related to crime.”