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The role of social control in Brazilian homicide rates

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  • Sandro de Freitas Ferreira

    (Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF))

  • Suzana Quinet de Andrade Bastos

    (Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF))

  • Admir Antonio Betarelli Junior

    (Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF))

Abstract

Violent crime in Brazil have grown since the 1980s. The state authorities are unable to ubiquitously monitor illegitimate activities. Less effective and more territorially diffused, social controllers can act as a primary control by socializing positive (negative) beliefs of adhering (violating) to rules. The criminal-deviance density of a place could carry information about the moral cost of entering the crime “industry”, because the levels of transgression can indirectly signal the level of this deterrence. We analyze the qualitative effect of social control to illegitimate choices, along with state deterrence. In a sample of comparable minimum areas, the latent factors were extracted from a set of rules-breaking phenomena, by exploratory factor analysis, then associated with homicide rates by fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis. Lower social coactivity is consistently associated with high homicide rates, when combined with high law enforcement. This research, besides constructing indicators of social coactivity levels based on violation decisions, consistently evidences a conjunctural nature between the measures of social and state control.

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  • Sandro de Freitas Ferreira & Suzana Quinet de Andrade Bastos & Admir Antonio Betarelli Junior, 2019. "The role of social control in Brazilian homicide rates," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 53(6), pages 2695-2717, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:qualqt:v:53:y:2019:i:6:d:10.1007_s11135-019-00886-6
    DOI: 10.1007/s11135-019-00886-6
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