Abstract
In this review, authors Ludmila Mendonça Lopes Ribeiro and Roberta Correa examine a few of the key publications on crime and law enforcement in Brazil that have appeared in the past few years. The publications illustrate how the field has structured itself in Brazil. They identify pioneering studies and how the directions these took shape in the studies area today, as expressed in the current literature. One of these volumes is a compendium of interviews with the so-called ‘founding fathers’ of criminology in Brazil; the others are anthologies that reflect the work of research groups that have sprung around them. The anthology organized by Machado da Silva centers on the concept of violent sociability and its importance for understanding crime and the relations between the police and citizens at the margins of Brazilian society. The second volume, Roberto Kant de Lima’s anthology, stresses that crime is managed via a mosaic of assembled truths, and contends that the apparatus of law enforcement and the criminal justice system aim to reinforce Brazilian society’s characteristic inequality.
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