Residency Period: 01/03/2009 to 28/02/2010
Full Professor of the Department of Sociology at UFMG, Cláudio Beato Filho holds a bachelor’s degree in from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (1982), a master’s degree in from the Brazilian Society of Education – SBI/IUPERJ (1986) and a doctorate from the Brazilian Society of Education – SBI/IUPERJ (1992). He is currently the Coordinator of CRISP – Center for Studies in Crime and Public Security, and an associate professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He received the National Scientific Merit Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology. He was a Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and the Center of Brazilian Studies at Oxford University. He is a member of the Economic and Social Development Council of Minas Gerais. His work has focused on the following topics: crime and violence, public security, public security policies, crime and police statistics, and urban crime analysis. He is a consultant in several Brazilian states and Latin American countries for the development of programs and projects for the control and prevention of violence. He has also worked with the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank and UNODC of the United Nations.
URBAN ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL CONTROL IN PUBLIC SAFETY
The project foresees the publication of two works: one on the themes of homicides and victimization in urban spaces. In addition, it foresees the writing of an article on urban spaces and crime and the publication of at least one article in a scientific journal. All of these texts will address a crucial issue for reflection on security in Brazil, which is the relationship between urban spaces and the production of control over violence and crime. This is a cross-cutting research theme that requires the competition of a wide range of knowledge from distant disciplinary matrices.