PAULA, Ricardo Henrique Arruda de. Com a morte nos olhos: itinerários de matadores de aluguel. 2008. 284f. – Tese (Doutorado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza (CE), 2008. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-10-21T11:49:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2008-TESE-RHAPAULA.pdf: 3740177 bytes, checksum: 83817c3244b76442c1e2dfff4af14411 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-10-21T13:19:58Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2008-TESE-RHAPAULA.pdf: 3740177 bytes, checksum: 83817c3244b76442c1e2dfff4af14411 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-10-21T13:19:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2008-TESE-RHAPAULA.pdf: 3740177 bytes, checksum: 83817c3244b76442c1e2dfff4af14411 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / A tese Com a Morte nos Olhos itinerários de matadores de aluguel é o resultado de cinco anos de pesquisa realizada no Estado do Ceará com pessoas que direta ou indiretamente tiveram contato com o crime de pistolagem Durante esse período foram colhidos relatos orais em forma de histórias de vida e autobiografia em um trabalho portanto envolvendo memórias e narrativas Todas as histórias relacionadas na tese associam-se através de um eixo comum e que chamo da visão da morte que está diante dos olhos Quer seja o pistoleiro que vive da morte o mandante que paga para matar o parente da vítima de um crime de pistolagem uma vítima que sobreviveu a um atentado praticado por um matador de aluguel ou ainda o policial que prendeu vários pistoleiros todos eles têm ou tiveram em suas vidas a experiência com esse tipo de morte Entre os entrevistados se sobressai o principal personagem Idelfonso Maia da Cunha popularmente conhecido por Mainha que se destacou no cenário local e nacional por seus crimes de mortes ligados à pistolagem Servindo-se de todo esse universo narrativo esta tese busca contribuir para o estudo dos valores e códigos construídos no universo social da pistolagem bem como do processo de constituição do habitus de pistoleiro. / La thèse Avec la Mort dans les Yeux itinéraires de tueurs à gages est le résultat de cinq années de recherches réalisées dans l’Etat du Ceará avec des personnages qui directement ou indirectement ont eu un contact avec le crime commandité Durant cette période ont été recueillis des récits oraux sous la forme d’histoires de vie et d’autobiographie dans un travail qui par conséquent concernait des mémoires et des récits Toutes ces histoires que l’on retrouve dans la thèse s’associent entre elles à travers un axe commun que j’appelle vision de mort qui se trouve sous leur regard Que ce soit le pistoleiro qui vit de la mort le commanditaire qui paie pour tuer le parent de la victime d’un crime commandité une victime qui a survécu à un attentat pratiqué par un tueur à gage ou encore le policier qui a mis en prison plusieurs tueurs à gage ils ont tous ou ils ont tous eu dans leur vie l’expérience de ce type de mort Parmi les interviewés, se distingue le personnage principal Idelfonso Maia da Cunha populairement connu sous le nom de Mainha qui s’est illustré dans le scénario local et national par ses meurtres en rapport avec des crimes commandités Exploitant tout cet univers narratif cette thèse cherche à contribuer à l’étude des valeurs et codes construits dans l’univers social du crime commandité ainsi qu’à l’étude du processus de constitution de l’habitus du pistoleiro.

Submitted by Irene Nascimento (irene.kessia@ufpe.br) on 2017-03-27T19:30:48Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) LOPES, José Maurício de Almeida. Políticas de Segurança Pública em MG e PE em Perspectiva Comparada.pdf: 810900 bytes, checksum: 4d77d3343edb3f752b99ad42a14cfb47 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-27T19:30:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) LOPES, José Maurício de Almeida. Políticas de Segurança Pública em MG e PE em Perspectiva Comparada.pdf: 810900 bytes, checksum: 4d77d3343edb3f752b99ad42a14cfb47 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-15 / Capes / O objetivo dessa dissertação é investigar de forma comparada os principais elementos que compuseram as políticas de segurança pública desenvolvidas nos estados de Minas Gerais e Pernambuco na primeira década de 2000. Para isso, apresentei os conteúdos analíticos e técnicos das políticas de segurança nos dois estados com o auxílio de dados estatísticos secundários, e busquei, através de entrevistas semi-estruturadas, apreender os significados, valores e opiniões de indivíduos que participaram ou participam de alguma maneira dos programas de segurança pública em cada um dos dois estados. Em 2002, Minas Gerais deu início a uma política de segurança com o intuito de fazer frente ao crescente avanço dos indicadores de criminalidade e violência no estado. Tendo como principais medidas a criação da Secretaria Estadual de Defesa Social e a política de integração das polícias, o estado conseguiu congregar ações de repressão qualificada e programas de prevenção social ao crime, tendo como maior destaque nessa área o programa Fica Vivo. No ano de 2007, foi a vez de Pernambuco dar início a uma reformulação em sua política de segurança na tentativa de frear o avanço da criminalidade violenta retirar do estado o título de um dos mais violentos do país. Programa abrangente, o Pacto Pela Vida – nome dado à política de segurança do estado – teve como umas de suas principais medidas agregar as ações das polícias militar e civil, o Ministério Público, o Poder Judiciário e pesquisadores ligados ao tema na busca pela reversão do quadro preocupante em que se encontrava o estado de Pernambuco à época. Ambas as políticas de segurança pública obtiveram êxito naquilo em que se propuseram fazer: Minas Gerais e Pernambuco conseguiram aliviar a situação em que se encontravam, porém, por um breve período de tempo. O que era para ser considerada política de segurança de Estado mostrou-se como sendo política de segurança de governo tanto em Minas Gerais quanto em Pernambuco, isto é, as reduções nos índices de violência duraram um curto período de tempo, mostrando-se frágeis o suficiente a ponto de não suportarem mudanças nos setores de liderança dos Executivos estaduais. A ausência de uma liderança política forte, capaz de trazer para si a responsabilidade de conduzir uma política desse porte contribuiu para o revés da situação favorável que os dois estados experimentavam até então. Além disso, manter a integração das ações entre as polícias militar e civil também se mostrou uma tarefa nada simples a ponto de também ser um fator comprometedor das ações nas áreas de segurança nos dois os estados. / The aim of this work is to investigate so compared the main elements that compose public security policies developed in the states of Minas Gerais and Pernambuco in the first decade of 2000. For this, I presented the analytical content and technical security policies in both states with the aid of secondary statistical data, and sought, through semi-structured interviews, learn the meanings, values and opinions of people who participated or participate in any way of public safety programs in each of the two states. In 2002, Minas Gerais began a security policy in order to tackle the growing advancement of crime and violence indicators in the state. The principal measures the creation of the State Secretariat of Social Defense and the integration policy of the police, the state managed to bring together qualified enforcement actions and social crime prevention programs, with the most prominent in this area the Staying Alive program. In 2007, it was the turn of Pernambuco initiate a reformulation of its security policy in an attempt to curb the spread of violent crime state take the title of one of the most violent in the country. comprehensive program, the Pact for Life - the name given to the state's security policy - had as one of its main measures aggregate the actions of military and civil police, prosecutors, the judiciary and researchers related to the subject in the search for reversal worrying situation he was in the state of Pernambuco at the time. Both public security policies have succeeded in what they set out to do: Minas Gerais and Pernambuco were able to alleviate the situation they were in, but for a short period of time. What was to be considered state security policy has proved to be government security policy being both in Minas Gerais and in Pernambuco, that is, reductions in violence lasted for a short period of time, being fragile the enough as to not support changes in the state executive leadership sectors. The absence of strong political leadership, able to bring upon himself to conduct a policy of this size contributed to the reversal of the favorable situation that the two states experienced before. Also, keep the integration of actions between the military and civil police was also not an easy task as to also be a factor compromising the shares in the security areas in both states.

O presente trabalho é um estudo de história social da escravidão que trata de crimes cometidos por escravos contra seus senhores na cidade de Campinas. Tem como objetivo compreender quem eram os escravos que cometiam delitos tão graves e quais as motivações por eles alegadas - ou a eles atribuídas - para justificar suas ações. Duas dinâmicas podem ser dessa maneira estudadas: por um lado, a relação dos escravos com os senhores, que culminou no assassinato dos últimos. Por outro, pode-se analisar também as relações horizontais dos escravos com seus companheiros, os laços afetivos e sociais por eles estabelecidos. Pode-se, assim, esclarecer tanto o momento excepcional do crime como outras interações que o precederam e motivaram. Num primeiro momento, a análise é focada no final da década de 1840, quando a produção de açúcar perdia cada vez mais espaço para o café e a proporção de africanos dentre os escravos era bastante alta. Nesta oportunidade, três crimes serão analisados, ocorridos em fazendas produtoras de cana, café e chá, pelos quais quatro escravos africanos foram condenados à morte pelo tribunal do júri, enquadrados na lei de 10 de junho de 1835. Num segundo momento, o foco é a década de 1870. Serão cinco os delitos examinados, os quais tiveram lugar em roças de café, algodão e produtos de subsistência. Quatorze escravos foram levados a julgamento como réus; alguns foram absolvidos enquanto outros encararam punições diversas, porém nenhum deles foi condenado à morte. Na conjuntura posterior ao fechamento definitivo do tráfico atlântico de escravos, nenhum dos indiciados era natural da África, mas vários deles vieram de diversas províncias do Brasil. A análise destes interessantes casos é possível através do cruzamento de dois tipos de documentos produzidos simultaneamente quando da morte destes senhores: os processos criminais, abertos e conduzidos por autoridades policiais e judiciais com o fim de apurar os fatos e punir os culpados; e os inventários post-mortem dos senhores, que listavam e avaliavam os bens por ele deixados em herança. / This paper regarding the social history of slavery studies crimes committed by slaves against their masters in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. It tries to understand who were those slaves and what were the motivations they used - or were assigned to them - to justify their actions. This analysis allows us to understand de relationship between master and slave, which culminated on the murder. But it also allows seeing the horizontal relationships betweens those slaves and their partners, their affective and social connections which could influence their behavior. I focus primarily in two types of documents created by these quarrels: the criminal prosecution installed by the legal authorities, such as the police and magistrates, and the inventory of the goods the master possessed and that would be shared by the heirs. When analyzed together, these two documents can shed light on the routine of the property, informing not only how the crime occurred, what were its motivations and how the defendant slave justified his actions to the State authorities, but also how he related to other slaves, what was his occupation, his skills, what items were produced in the property, what was the financial situation of the master, if it made him demand to expand the production, through an intensification of work pace from his slaves that would justify an upraise. At first, the analysis focuses on the late 1840\'s, when sugar plantations were being surpassed by coffee and a high percentage of slaves had African origin. Then, three homicides took place on sugar, coffee and tea plantations and four African slaves were trialed and condemned to death, according to the law of June 10th 1835. Afterwards, five crimes occurred in the 1870\'s will be explored. They happened in coffee, cotton and food plantations. Fourteen slaves were prosecuted, some of them were absolved, while others were condemned to face various punishments, but none of them were condemned to death - although the law of 1835 still applied. After the closing of Atlantic slave trade, the defendants were no longer Africans, but many came from several provinces of Brazil.

The primary objective of this thesis was to examine the relevance of intergovernmental decisions and western risk-focused social crime prevention to reducing youth crime within Chongqing, China. This involved a review of the existing literature that might be relevant to: (i) the current youth crime situation in the city of Chongqing, (ii) risk factors that might contribute to youth crime within Chongqing, (iii) the scientific evaluations of ‘evidence-based’ risk-focused crime prevention strategies for different age groups of youth, and (iv) implementation strategies for evidence-based innovations to reduce youth crime. Based on this knowledge, interviews with six key stakeholders of Chongqing were conducted for the purpose of obtaining initial perceptions regarding the utility and practicality of crime prevention through social development within Chongqing. Ultimately, this study demonstrates the preliminary relevance of western studies and action, recalls China’s endorsement of intergovernmental recommendations, and provides a foundation for further research.

Mandated accreditation of crime laboratories is a fairly new phenomenon. The state of Texas was the first to require that crime laboratories be accredited in order to be able to present evidence in a criminal proceeding. The laws that govern this are Texas House Bill 2703 and Texas House Bill 1068. The goal of this study is see how the enactment of these laws impacted crime laboratories. There are 42 crime laboratories that are accredited in the state of Texas. This study was conducted by the use of telephone survey interviews. Results indicated that mandated accreditation is a step in the right direction to ensure that objectivity is maintained during the processing and evaluation of physical evidence.

The rise of terrorism and transnational organised crime (TOC) post-9/11, two previously separate phenomena, are now both a plague of the 21st century. The emergence of unconventional forms of terrorist organisations such as the Islamic State (IS) indicates new features in the crime-terror nexus. This requires rethinking of the conventional crime-terror convergence frameworks; including the crime-terror continuum (CTC) model, which is used to explain and categorise the relationships between organised crime (OC) and terrorism. The original 2003-2004 CTC model suggests that the relationship between crime and terrorism is not static but has evolved into a continuum. The CTC tracks down how the organisational dynamics and operational nature of both terrorism and OC changes over time. A single group can slide up and down between OC and terrorism, depending on the operational environment. Contemporary terrorism practices suggest that post-9/11 terrorist organisations have undergone significant transformations, and that the boundaries between organised crime and terrorism have become blurred. This brings into question the explanatory power and applicability of the conventional convergence trends, which are depicted in the 2003-2014 versions of the CTC model, to the reality of the transformation of terrorist organisations post-9/11. The conventional convergence trends revolve around ‘realities’ of relationships between OC and terrorism in the form of alliances, appropriation of tactics, integration, hybridisation, and transformation from terrorist to criminal entities or vice versa. The current realities raise several questions about the applicability of the CTC model, as an explanatory tool. Terrorist organisations can originate as criminal organisations, using ideological motives as a recruiting poster for criminal activities. This points to gaps in the relationship of contemporary terrorism and OC, which are found in the crime-terror nexus and its discourse. These gaps pave the way for rethinking and critical evaluation of the explanatory power of the CTC model in the post-9/11 period and lay the basis for the development of an alternative framework as a foundation for further research. This study aims to critically rethink the explanatory power and revisit the applicability of the CTC to changes in the relationship between crime and terrorism post-9/11. This study employs a systematic literature overview design followed by critical evaluation. It isolates key works on the crime-terror nexus and convergence phenomenon, and assesses their limitations, so as to better understand and tackle terrorism in the post-9/11 period. / Mini Dissertation (MSS)--University of Pretoria, 2018. / Political Sciences / MSS / Unrestricted

The myth of the “super-predator” offender was adopted by newspaper media in the mid-1990s characterizing “violent”, urban, and minority juvenile offenders. The phrase originated from newspaper headlines of the 1980s and 1990s, but limited research has identified whether this con-struct predated DiIulio and Fox’s crime surge prediction. This study sampled juvenile crime news items from The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times (N=2,008) 1985-1995 with defined search criteria of juvenile actors, “violent” juvenile crime, and/or juvenile drug crime. A descriptive analysis of the data determined reporting trends sought for a “period effect” caused by the publicity of the prediction and searched for the pre-existence of “super-predator” construct. Finally, a series χ2 test determined the statistical independence of “super-predator” offender, the victim, and crime characteristics, from variables of news article prominence. This study found support for identifiable trends in juvenile crime reporting, no identifiable “period effect” and mixed, but ultimately null findings, in pre-establishing the super-predator media construct. The χ2 test determined the statistical independence of “super-predator” offender, the victim, and crime characteristics, found some characteristics were statically independent of variables of article prominence, but that these relationships are weak.

Thesis (M. A. (Criminology)) -- University of Limpopo, 2020 / The purpose of this study was to determine the strength of Pentecostal Christianity and its practices in restraining followers from committing crime focusing on the individuals’ criminality prior to, in the different growth stages (before being born again, being born-again and being Spirit-filled) of their spiritual lives and the length of time practising the belief. The present study aimed at determining whether Pentecostal Christianity has a restraining influence on Christians from committing crime. A quantitative, explanatory study was conducted to statistically analyse the strength of Pentecostal Christianity in restraining Christians from committing crime. Data were collected through administration of questionnaires in three Pentecostal churches in the Mankweng Area on different Sundays. Data were further analysed using SPSS statistical program where inferential statistics was used to test hypotheses using the Kruskal-Wallis test in conjunction with Chi-Square test of independence and descriptive statistics were also used to formulate graphs to present findings. The hypotheses tested showed a significant difference in criminality before being born again, after being born-again and baptism in the Holy Spirit with a p value of less than 0,.05. The length an individual has practising the faith has no significant difference in reducing criminal behaviour. This study concluded that the Pentecostal Christian faith, to some extent, deters followers from committing crime. Keywords: Christianity, Pentecostal Christianity, crime

>Magister Scientiae - MSc / This research is on a comparative evaluation of 3D and spatio-temporal deep learning methods for crime classification and prediction using the Chicago crime dataset, which has 7.29 million records, collected from 2001 to 2020. In this study, crime classification experiments are carried out using two 3D deep learning algorithms, i.e., 3D Convolutional Neural Network and the 3D Residual Network. The crime classification models are evaluated using accuracy, F1 score, Area Under Receiver Operator Curve (AUROC), and Area Under Curve - Precision-Recall (AUCPR). The effectiveness of spatial grid resolutions on the performance of the classification models is also evaluated during training, validation and testing.

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