Abstract
It deals with the decline in homicides in Sao Paulo after the year 2000. From 1980 to 1999, the rate of increase in Sao Paulo was of 260 %, and the decline between 1999 and 2010 was of 80 %. The decline was greatest precisely among those groups that were most vulnerable to homicides in poorer regions, that is, youths between 15 and 24 and between 25 and 34 living in regions of extreme or high exclusion. It is undeniable that the phenomenon of decline is multi-causal, with diverse variables producing the conditions that allowed the drop to happen. This section will describe how this process was induced by government policies and how new mechanisms of control ended up determining behavior. Just as we identified a new moral alignment in some neighborhoods in order to understand the growth in homicides using the perpetrators’ accounts, the same will be done to explain the inverse movement.
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