Recent Ethnographies on Crime and Violence in Brazil

Over the past five years, a set of ethnographies produced by young sociologists is bringing new data and styles of questioning the reality of collective violence and crime in Brazil. This paper aims to present the main work of this recent wave of ethnographies, summarizing the characteristics of the analysis undertaken by young authors who developed them. Interfaces crime and morality, crime and politics in the peripheries of large urban centers, crime and police corruption, criminal organizations in the life of prisons and armed clashes in urban areas are the main dimensions of the lifting of the state of the art from these works.