Historical chart and dataset showing Brazil crime rate per 100K population by year from 1990 to 2020.

The number of violent crimes against property registered in Brazil showed a downward trend from 2017 to 2020. After an increase in 2021 and 2022, this number decreased again in 2023, with 366,260 such cases in the South American country.Furthermore, most of the violent crimes against property in Brazil consist of vehicle thefts and break-ins.

The number of violent crimes against property registered in Brazil has been oscillating in recent years, experiencing a steep decline in 2020. In 2023, the figures were lower than the previous year, with around 355,000 car thefts or break-ins being reported in the South American country.Meanwhile, the number of violent deaths in Brazil has decreased lately.

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to present the first results of the crime and justice mapping research in the nineteenth century and the first three decades of the twentieth century Minas Gerais, more specifically the region of Comarca do Rio das Mortes. The estimation of crime rates over the one century period, associated with the analysis of its geographical distribution, allowed us to observe changes occurred in the application of justice and in its control agencies, as well as the impact of changes over conflicts, violence and order negotiation. The data analysed in this paper is about the area of the old town of Tamanduá, now called Itapecerica, and its surroundings, with a total of 1133 criminal cases occurred between 1829 and 1930. The results show an exponential increase in the number of violent cases starting from the last decade of the nineteenth century. In an attempt to explain this change in the trend we work with a hypothesis of a collapse of the justice system with the implementation of the Republic.

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.

The Rio de Janeiro (RJ) municipality presents one of the highest crime rates in Brazil. However, since the 2000s, a significant reduction of lethal crimes has been observed. Given this scenario, the aim of this study is to analyze the factors that determined this phenomenon. Among them, it seeks to assess the effects of the Pacifying Police Unit (Unidade de Polícia Pacificadora - UPP). To this end, the statistical error correction vector (ECV) method was used. This study allowed for the analysis of short- and long-term relationships between crime rates and variables associated with economic activity and police action. The applied dataset comprises the period between April 2002 and August 2019. The main results indicate that UPP implementation contributed to lethal crime reduction in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. Furthermore, the results show that coercive police action tends to increase crime rates.

In 2023, the homicide rate in Brazil reached 22.8 incidents per 100,000 inhabitants. The lowest number in the country since 2012 was recorded in 2021, when a homicide rate of 22.3 was recorded.

Historical dataset showing Brazil crime rate per 100K population by year from 1990 to 2020.

In Brazil, crime rates have been very high at least since the 1980s. There is a social perception that adolescents are the main responsibles to increase these rates, although there is no scientifical evidence to support it. Thus, as a way to try to reduce crime rates, congressmen proposed to amend the constitution to lower the age of criminal majority, which nowadays is 18 years old. According to Neil Hazel (2008), "criminal majority is the age at which the criminal justice system processes offenders as adults" (p. 7).

This dataset contains all Proposals to Amend the Constitution on lowering the ACM in Brazil, since 1989 to 2015. We collected them directly from Chamber of Deputies and Federal Senate's websites and put them together to make easier to researchers and stakeholders find them. Every proposals are divided in four parts. In the first part, there are the main information about the proposals, for example, the document's number and year of publication, its authors, subject, and which Constitution's article should be modified. In the second one, there is the new article redaction proposed by its author. In the third one (justification), there is a text the document's authors argue why the proposal should be approved by the National Congress. Finally, the fourth part contains the congressmen signatures who support the proposal.

Our main purpose is to provide dataset to researchers and stakeholders to content analyze these proposals and the congressmen justifications to do so.

The Brazilian Crimes Dataset (BCD) contains crime records and pre-processing procedures used in our experiments on crime analysis and prediction [1]. In particular, we proposed an approach to predict crimes and evaluated it by using crime records crawled from the brazilian web site Onde Fui Roubado.

Please consider citing the following references if you found this dataset useful:

[1] Úrsula Rosa Monteiro de Castro, Marcos Wander Rodrigues, Wladmir Cardoso Brandão. Predicting crime by exploiting supervised learning on heterogeneous data. In: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS'20), 2020.

[2] Úrsula Rosa Monteiro de Castro, Wladmir Cardoso Brandão. (2020). BCD: Brazilian Crimes Dataset (Version 1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo.

Occurrence of violent crimes (2019-2020)

Abstract Violence against LGBT people has always been present in our society. Brazil is the country with the highest number of lethal crimes against LGBT people in the world. The aim of this study was to describe the characteristics of homicides of LGBT people in Brazil using spatial analysis. The LGBT homicide rate was used to facilitate the visualization of the geographical distribution of homicides. Public thoroughfares and the victim’s home were the most common places of occurrence. The most commonly used methods for killing male homosexuals and transgender people were cold weapons and firearms, respectively; however, homicides frequently involved beatings, suffocation, and other cruelties. The large majority of victims were aged between 20 and 49 years and typically white or brown. The North, Northeast and Central-West regions, precisely the regions with the lowest HDI, presented LGBT homicide rates above the national rate. LGBT homicides are typically hate crimes and constitute a serious public health problem because they affect young people, particularly transgender people. This problem needs to be addressed by the government, starting with the criminalization of homophobia and the subsequent formulation of public policies to reduce hate crimes and promote respect for diversity.

In 2023, approximately 50,000 cases of violence against women were reported in the city of Rio de Janeiro. With over 18,000 cases, psychological violence, such as threatening behavior, harassment, and humiliation, was the category with the most reported cases, while property damage was the least reported category with fewer than 2,200 cases.

Extensive research suggests that electoral competition and power alternations increase violence in weakly institutionalized democracies. Yet little is known about how political parties affect violence and security. We theorize that the type of party strengthened in elections shapes security outcomes and argue that the rise of programmatic parties, at the expense of clientelistic parties, can significantly reduce violence. In contexts of large-scale criminal violence, programmatic parties are less likely to establish alliances with coercive actors because they possess fewer incentives and greater coordination capacity. Focusing on Brazil, we use a regression discontinuity design that leverages the as-if random assignment of election winners across three rounds of mayoral races. We find that violent crime decreased in municipalities where programmatic parties won coin-flip elections, while it increased in those where clientelistic parties triumphed. Our findings suggest that whether electoral competition increases violence depends on the type of party that wins elections.

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Abstract In this paper we analyzed data from police investigations and trials of intentional homicides shelved in Belo Horizonte between 2003 and 2013 in order to understand the clearance’s determinants. As independent variables, we used the characteristics of victim, crimes’ attributes and police procedures. The results inform that the homicides features and police truth-finding methods (centered on the flagrante delicto and the presence of eyewitnesses) were the variables that explained the clearance likelihood. However, the length of time may affect this result, since police inquiries that are not completed within five year are not likely to be trialed.

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.

The scientific research had the scope of critically understanding the application of the Agent Competition Differentiating Theory in the attribution of economic criminal offenses to business leaders. Based on the analysis of jurisprudence from Brazilian Superior Courts, sought to find the standard used in the distinction between authorship and participation, relevant to the accountability of those involved. For the research in the Courts, keywords were defined - for example: director, author, participant, domain of the fact - related to the specific objectives of the research in order to delimit the results. After jurisprudential analysis and research, it is concluded that the discussion sought is absent. The attempt to determine the extent of the crime in business crimes is not mentioned in most of the decisions analyzed. Furthermore, the distorted use of the Dominion over the Act Theory in holding corporate leaders accountable is observed, revealing a criminal prosecution system that is inappropriate for this context.

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.

The homicide rate registered in Brazil impacts ethnicities very differently. Whereas the number of homicides per 100,000 black or brown people increased by ** percent between 2006 and 2017, the homicide rate of non-black or brown individuals declined by nearly ** percent in the same period. In 2022, the homicide rate for the black ethnic group decreased compared to the previous year.