Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zaluar, Alba

Titel

Eight topics for debate: violence and public safety

Ist Teil von

• Sociologia (Lisbon, Portugal), 2002-05 (38), p.19-24

Ort / Verlag

Lisboa: Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia

Erscheinungsjahr

2002

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In order to understand the question of violence & to be able to propose new public policies in Brazil, this text addresses some of the ideas that are most widely disseminated in both the mass media & the academic world at the moment. Limiting the explanation of the phenomenon to poverty & inequality prevents a more complex comprehension of the issue. Propositions concerning the existence of a culture of violence & the legitimate monopoly of violence -- both erroneous -- actually end up making it more difficult to understand the various different conflicts in the social & political arena. The trafficking related links between the legal & illegal economies are also insufficiently taken into account in the theories that are needed if more effective & democratic public policies are to be established. Adapted from the source document.