Crime in Brazil - Wikipedia
Brazil has one of the highest crime rates in the world, which involves an elevated incidence of violent and non-violent crimes. [1] According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Brazil had a homicide rate of 21.26 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2021, [2] up from 20.89 per 100,000 inhabitants with 43,073 murders in 2019; however ...
Crime and violence in Brazil – statistics & facts | Statista
Violence and crime have become an outstanding facet of Brazil’s national and international identity, a topic of conversation as widespread as the country’s world-famous barbecues and Carnival.
Despite Record-Low Murder Rates, Brazilians Feel Less Safe
Apr 15, 2024 · RIO DE JANEIRO — There is a paradoxical reality in Brazil today: While murders have fallen to record lows, Brazilians are deeply concerned about criminal violence. There were 39,500 intentional homicides reported in 2023, a 4% drop from 2022, when there were 41,100.
Homicides in Brazil at the lowest level in over a decade, report …
Jul 20, 2023 · The number of violent deaths in 2022 reached the lowest level in more than a decade, according to a July 20, 2023 report by Brazilian researchers at the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety, an independent group that tracks crimes.
What a Decade of Data Tells Us About Organized Crime in Brazil
Jul 1, 2024 · Violence increased in parts of northern Brazil over the past decade as criminal factions, bolstered by mass incarceration, fought over emerging cocaine trafficking routes in this region, a new report shows.
Crime and violence in Brazil: Systematic review of time trends ...
In 2008, the average homicide rate worldwide was 7.9 per 100,000 people. The rate of 29.6 in Brazil was the 13th highest rate out of all 193 WHO member states. Between 1980 and 2010, there were a total of 1.09 million homicides in Brazil.
Firearms, Disappearances, Prison Overcrowding: Brazil ... - InSight Crime
Aug 1, 2023 · Prisoners at the door of an overloaded jail cell in Brazil. From overpopulated, crumbling prisons to tens of thousands of disappearances every year, as well as millions of weapons in circulation, Brazil’s security panorama looks grim, according to the 2023 Brazilian Public Security Annual.
Brazil Crime Rate & Statistics 1990-2024 - Macrotrends
Brazil Crime Rate & Statistics 1990-2024. Intentional homicides are estimates of unlawful homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups.
How Brazil’s largest crime syndicate built a global drug empire
Feb 28, 2022 · How Brazil’s largest crime syndicate built a global drug empire. A prison gang 30 years ago, the PCC has risen to become one of the world’s most powerful organised crime groups.
Explosions Outside Brazil’s Supreme Court Leave 1 Dead
2 days ago · The blasts on Wednesday occurred 20 seconds apart at about 7:30 p.m., local officials said. The first exploded in the trunk of a car in a parking lot near the Supreme Court. Seconds later, a ...