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CONVOCATORIA PARA LA CONTRATACIÓN DE CONSULTORÍA TÉCNICA en el marco del Programa de Asistencia para el Control de Armas de Fuego y Municiones (PACAM)
Consultoría técnica para el desarrollo de contenidos y metodología de actividades de movilización comunitaria y sensibilización del uso indebido de armas de fuego en República Dominicana

Suélem Barroso, jornalista e consultora em comunicação do Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento, escreveu este artigo sobre algumas iniciativas para combater à violência contra as mulheres. Escreve que de cada três brasileiros dois tem presenciado a uma mulher sendo vítima de algum tipo de violência e que de acordo a Folha de São Paulo o Brasil registra dez estupros por dia. Também de acordo com os dados da publicação Visível e Invisível: A Vitimização de Mulheres no Brasil do Fórum de Segurança Pública: “70% das mulheres brasileiras de até 24 anos já sofreram algum tipo de agregação em espaços públicos”. As quatro iniciativas destacadas por Barroso são uma tentativa de reduzir a violência.

The writers of A Crime-Fighting Policy for Latin America and the Caribbean suggest that interventions that target experienced criminal leaders could reduce crime and violence, and therefore the costs, in the region. The authors developed a new theoretical model. This model includes two stages where someone decides whether to become a criminal or not and then how much crime s/he will commit if they decide to become a criminal. The theory assumes that a criminal’s best practices are learned from an experienced criminal leader.

In this brief article, Robert Muggah and Ilona Szabó de Carvalho hint at some of the politics that led to the decrease of homicide in São Paulo from 52.5 per 100.000 in 1999 to 6.1 per 100.000 today. The renovation of the São Paulo state’s police that included the intensive use of data and technological tools opened the door for incorporation of hot spot and community policing strategies in the agency. Also, community-oriented policies planned from a public health perspective targeted the habits/conditions that were seen to trigger violence, such as the consumption and expend of alcohol at late night and the easy access to firearms. While police brutality is still a problem in the state, the reforms also included a process of culture change on what it means to be a police officer.

Military intervention in urban areas are seen as a positive measure often because of the negative opinion citizens have on their police departments. Cases of corruption and even extrajudicial executions alienate people from police officers and create an atmosphere of mistrust in which crime thrives. Military personnel on the other hand enjoy of a generally good perception by the public because of the patriotic service they dive to their nation. However, it is evident for the public that a long lasting solution for the problems of their city’s crime and violence situation is not the constant presence of the armed forces in the streets. A survey conducted by InSight Crime confirms this idea through the data collected in present Rio de Janeiro where a militaristic approach has been used to combat crime.