The Geography of Homicide in São Paulo, Brazil

Vânia Ceccato, Robert Haining and Tulio Kahn
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Vânia Ceccato: Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DT, England
Robert Haining: Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EN, England
Tulio Kahn: Department of Planning and Analysis, Secretaria de Segurança Pública de São Paulo, Brazil

Environment and Planning A, 2007, vol. 39, issue 7, 1632-1653

Abstract: The authors investigate geographical patterns of homicide in São Paulo, Brazil. The geography of crime in developing world cities has been an underresearched area in part because of the lack of good-quality, geocoded offence data. In the case of São Paulo the availability of a new digital police dataset has provided the opportunity to improve our understanding of its crime patterns. The authors report the testing of hypotheses about the spatial variation in homicide rates. This variation is explained by poverty, situational conditions determined by differences in land use, and processes that indicate links with the geography of drug markets and the availability of firearms.

Date: 2007
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