bachelor's at Ciências Sociais from Universidade de São Paulo (1984), master's at Sociology from Universidade de São Paulo (1990) and doctorate at Sociology from Universidade de São Paulo (1996). Has experience in Sociology, acting on the following subjects: punição, violência, políticas públicas de segurança, justiça criminal and sociologia. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Since the 1970s, Brazilian society has been undergoing a process of transition from military dictatorship to democracy. With this political transition, it was expected that conflicts would be progressively resolved, reducing violence. However, that didn't happen. Indeed, the transition was accompanied by an explosion of internal conflicts, much of which associated with urban crime. There …
This project builds on the work of the FAPESP funded research project "Building democracy daily: human rights, violence, and institutional trust". This research program focuses on the way in which laws, rules and procedures are implemented over time and how this defines the legitimacy of institutions key to democracy. The purpose of this research program is to analyze the daily constructi…
Since 1990, NEV has analyzed aspects of the intertwining of democratic consolidation and the persistence of violence. Recently the research program focused on the study of the quality of democracy from the perspective of human rights and violence. Successive expectations and prognosis about democracy have failed so far: there has been no regression but democratic rule of law remains a dis…
The Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais (RBCS) has been published sin 1986. Throughout this period it as published articles on the most important matters in the field. In October 2000, the Brazilian Review of Social Sciences was launched, published in the last two years in the journal's Portuguese version. It is now an electronic publication, and is supported by the Edelstein Center fo…
The Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais (RBCS) has been published since 1986. Throughout this period it has published articles on the most important matters in the field. In October 2000 the Brazilian Review of Social Sciences was launched, a twice-yearly publication in English of articles published in the last two years in the journal Portuguese version. It is now an electronic public…
Based on recent urban changes that have been occurring in the State of Sao Paulo (Capital and selected Municipalities), this research project aims at investigating the different links that might articulate the govern of urban spaces and populations, the emergence of security technologies and the creation of market opportunities. It intends also to elaborate a political cartography of the …
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This undergraduate research fellowship aims to promote the study of the relationship between political communication and the circulation of authoritarian discourses on social media platforms. The goal is to understand how the communication developed on these platforms either contributes to or hinders the assessment of the legitimacy of democratic institutions, human rights, and the use of…
The project aims to reconstruct aspects of the history of social control institutions in the state of São Paulo designed to control children and adolescents in two different periods. From 1930 to 1960, it seeks to analyze the institutions created for children and adolescents considered to be in a situation of abandonment or offenders. From 2007 to 2014, it seeks to analyze the institution…
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The present doctoral research project falls within the scope of studies on the Brazilian prison system, its transformations, disputes and the relational set of individuals that are part of it. More specifically, the discussion in which this project seeks to insert concerns the rehabilitative and reintegrating ideal in dialogue with the idea of a punitive turn, through the hypothesis of tr…
For at least three decades, the sociology of punishment has investigated Foucault's potential to resolve its concerns. Despite Michel Foucault appearing as an unavoidable name for the area, there is no consensus on the appropriation of his work among specialists. Above all, there are three different trends: (i) the one that places Foucault's contribution to the understanding of punishment…
This proposal aims to evaluate if there were any changes in the perceptions of the justice system and its legitimacy having as an indicator the operation Lava Jato. Due to a complex dynamic in the elites' plan, Lava Jato passed from a successful operation to a suspicious one. This proposal will test the hypothesis about the reception of this new frame in the public servants' perceptions a…
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Punishment is a dear topic to social theory. In the last three decades, sociology has tried to investigate with particular attention this subject and its latest developments, as well as to provide comprehensive explanations about the meaning of punishment in modernity. Michel Foucault's work, in this sense, stands as an unavoidable reference for the area. However, many incorporations of h…
The present research project is inserted in the discussion about the rehabilitating ideal in dialogue with the paradigm of a punitive turn and new penology, through the hypothesis of transformations in the prison system and the entry of certain rights and benefits in the Brazilian prison that point to a possible change in the way in which the incarcerated population is conceived by state …
In the last decade, we have observed a growing role of the Armed Forces in public security operations on the continent. A representative number of members of the Armed Forces in positions in the executive, legislative and even in some judicial advisory positions were and still are present in several countries in the region. In this sense, the present work seeks, starting from a theoretica…
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The Lava Jato anti-corruption operation began in 2014 in Brazil. Its intense publicization incited the population and members of the justice system to take a position on its actions and political consequences. Between 2016 and 2017, NEV's team within the CEPID FAPESP project "Building Democracy Daily: Human Rights, Violence and Institutional Trust" interviewed 19 judges in the capital of …
My PhD research intends to discuss Moral Panic in the scope of the sociology of violence, punishment and social representations of crime and human rights. For the purpose of this analysis, during the internship I will conduct a more specialized study of the Moral Panic approach, both in theory and methodology. At the end of this study, I will have a mapping of the discussion and its main …
Over the past twenty years we have witnessed the use of various surveillance and monitoring tools by the military and police departments in the US, London and Sao Paulo. Generally, these tools are developed through public-private partnerships, introducing predictive algorithms and facial recognition systems that would help prevent crime and terrorism through "proactive" actions. They enab…
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