In 2024, the highest amount of crimes recorded in the state of São Paulo was for thievery, excluding vehicle thievery, with more than half a million cases. The second most common crime was robberies, with nearly 189,000 incidences.

Abstract This article analyzes the relationships between crime, violence and cities, a traditional object of the social sciences and urban studies. With the city of São Paulo as the background and reported murders as the parameter, the article registers the evolution of vital and criminal records and questions the hypothesis that analyzes and explains crime distribution, in urban territories, based on the dualistic and binary logic between non-violent and violent neighborhoods, between center and periphery. Evaluating the stock of knowledge available in this field of study and discussing methodological issues related to the quality of the data that support analyses, the article proposes some methodological approaches that, today, can better explain crime distribution in a diversified and complex metropolitan fabric.

In the state of São Paulo, Brazil, the population in 2021 was composed by 63.7 percent of people who identified as white. However, this ethnic group only represented 31 percent of the civilians killed by security agents. Meanwhile, 69 percent of civilian deaths caused by the police were black people, who constituted a little more than a third of the state's population. Moreover, the share of people of black ethnicity killed by the police in the state's capital reached nearly 70 percent of the total that year.

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This dataset contain official crime statistics from São Paulo state cities (Brazil) and were prepared based on information available on the Civil State Police statistics site: http://www.ssp.sp.gov.br/Estatistica/Pesquisa.aspx

• Period available:

  • Crime Monthly Occurrences and Policy productivity: 2001 - May, 2021 Note: in both datasets, decimal separator is a point (".") .

  • Crime rates (annual rates available): 1999 -2020 (available for some of the cities) Note: in this dataset, decimal separator is a comma (",") .

• Data and labels in brazilian portuguese.

• Information about crime type interpretation (available only in brazilian portuguese) in: http://www.ssp.sp.gov.br/Estatistica/download/manual.pdf

• Datasets prepared with Selenium (webscraping) and Pandas libraries in Python.

Author: Dalciana B. Waller https://github.com/DBWALLER

Comprehensive dataset of 18 Crime victim services in State of São Paulo, Brazil as of July, 2025. Includes verified contact information (email, phone), geocoded addresses, customer ratings, reviews, business categories, and operational details. Perfect for market research, lead generation, competitive analysis, and business intelligence. Download a complimentary sample to evaluate data quality and completeness.

In 2024, six of the eight Brazilian cities with the highest homicide rates were in the Northeast. Feira da Santana led the ranking of the most violent city in Brazil, with a murder rate of ***** per 100,000 inhabitants. It was followed followed by Recife, with a homicide rate of more than ** per 100,000 inhabitants. In Latin America and the Caribbean, Feira da Santana was the **** most deadly city.

Although Brazil remains severely affected by civil violence, the state of São Paulo has made significant inroads into fighting criminality. In the last decade, São Paulo has witnessed a 70% decline in homicide rates, a result that policy-makers attribute to a series of crime-reducing measures implemented by the state government. While recent academic studies seem to confirm this downward trend, no estimation of the total impact of state policies on homicide rates currently exists. The present article fills this gap by employing the synthetic control method to compare these measures against an artificial São Paulo. The results indicate a large drop in homicide rates in actual São Paulo when contrasted with the synthetic counterfactual, with about 20,000 lives saved during the period. The theoretical usefulness of the synthetic control method for public policy analysis, the role of the Primeiro Comando da Capital as a causal mediator, and the practical implications of the security measures taken by the São Paulo state government are also discussed.

In 2023, São Paulo was the Brazilian state which had the highest number of car thefts and break-ins in, totaling approximately 131,730. It was followed by Rio de Janeiro state with 38,825 cases reported. Over 354,000 vehicle thefts and break-ins in the South American country during 2023 were recorded.

During the Brazilian Carnival season of 2020, more than 2.4 thousand were arrested throughout the state of São Paulo. Nearly one quarter of those arrests corresponded to people who had already been convicted but were fleeing from justice.

The number of femicides — murders committed against women because of their gender — in Brazil slightly increased in 2023, in comparison to the previous year. Throughout 2023, 1,467 femicides were registered in Brazil, up from 1,455 recorded one year before. That year, the Brazilian state with the highest number of femicides was São Paulo.

Social, demographic, clinical, and criminal characteristics of the prison population of São Paulo state, Brazil (N = 1809).

In 2023, São Paulo was the Brazilian state with the highest number of violent deaths of LGBT+ people. Out of the *** deaths reported that year, 27were registered in that state. Ceará ranked second, with ** deaths. Further, most cause of these deaths were homicides.

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@conference{visapp22,
author={Bahram Lavi and Eric K. Tokuda and Felipe Moreno-Vera and Luis Gustavo Nonato and Claudio T. Silva and Jorge Poco},
title={17K-Graffiti: Spatial and Crime Data Assessments in São Paulo City},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2022) - Volume 4: VISAPP},
year={2022},
pages={968-975},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010883300003124},
isbn={978-989-758-555-5},
}

Dados sobre a criminalidade do estado de São Paulo.Inclui dados sobre homicidios, lesão corporal, registros de IML, dentre outras ocorrências policiais.

A pena de morte tem sido foco de diversos estudos há décadas. Neste sentido, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo principal analisar os diversos discursos utilizados pelos dois jornais mais importantes de São Paulo (o Estado e a Folha) ao abordarem o tema da pena de morte em cada um dos três períodos políticos dos últimos cinquenta anos da história brasileira: Ditadura (1968 a 1974), transição da ditadura para de democracia (1987 a 1995) e período democrático (2005 a 2011). Para isso, foi utilizado como material de análise os artigos dos jornais o “Estado de São Paulo” e “A Folha de São Paulo” que apresentaram no título a expressão “pena de morte”. Na primeira análise, o material foi processado pelo pacote estatístico ALCESTE com a finalidade de verificar quais os temas gerais sobre a pena de morte que foram aglutinados por meio da análise lexical. Foram utilizadas duas técnicas de análise por meio do processamento dos dados pelo ALCESTE: A Classificação Hierárquica Descendente e a Análise Fatorial por Correspondência. Os resultados encontrados na primeira análise possibilitaram a aglutinação das classes que se dividiram entre classes que situaram os artigos de debate e de caráter informativos. Da análise realizada no jornal “Estado de São Paulo” foram encontradas as seguintes classes “Debate: Vida e Crime”- Classe IV (47,71% do corpus), “Debate Constitucional”- Classe II (17,47%) que se destacaram por serem classes que contém artigos que possibilitaram o debate sobre a pena de morte; e as classes de caráter informativo “Julgamento na Ditadura” - Classe III (13,43%) e “Notícias Internacionais”- Classe I (21,39%). O resultado desta mesma análise no jornal “Folha de São Paulo” foram encontradas as seguintes classes “Debate: Vida e Crime” – Classe II (49%) e “Debate Constitucional”- Classe III (24%) que são representativas de elementos lexicais de artigos de caráter de debate e a classe I- “Julgamentos na Ditadura”(27%) que aglutinou as informações das notícias apenas de caráter informativas. Em um segundo momento, o material foi analisado à luz da Técnica de Análise de Conteúdo, visando encontrar quais os temas sobre a pena de morte mais citados pelos jornais estudados. Como resultados emergiram os seguintes argumentos acerca da pena de morte: “A Pena de Morte é Eficiente”versus “A Pena de Morte é Ineficente”, “A Pena de Morte é Justa”, “A pena de morte é Injusta” e “Sem Argumentos a Favor e Contra a Pena de Morte”.De fato, o debate sobre a pena de morte no Brasil foi reintroduzido de forma pública no final dos anos 80 e, esse debate tem se estendido até os dias atuais e em todos os recursos midiáticos. Verifica-se que muitos dos argumentos sobre a pena de morte tem se repetido em estudos anteriores. Acredita-se que a manutenção desses estilos discursivos tem sido retroalimentada por meio de práticas discursivas antigas, de instituições, que mantêm tais ideias e que acabam por controlar a veiculação da informação.