International Journal on Criminology Volume 7, Number 2, Spring 2020 | Page 142

The Economic Costs of Crime in Brazil
Until recently, the Brazilian State too often failed to plan, propose, manage,
execute, or monitor its domestic public security policies. Measures that may
seem populist or extreme are particularly popular in Brazilian society, which has
already suffered enormously from the terrible violence that plagues the country.
Only time will tell if such measures, dismissed as ineffective by some criminologists,
will prove beneficial for Brazil.
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