Residency Period: 03/01/2009 to 02/28/2010
Professor at the Department of Sociology at UFMG, Cláudio Beato Filho holds a degree from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (1982), a master’s degree from the Brazilian Society of Instruction – SBI/IUPERJ (1986) and a doctorate from the Brazilian Society of Instruction – SBI/IUPERJ (1992). He is currently Coordinator of CRISP – Center for Studies in Criminality and Public Security, and associate professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He received the Commendation of National Scientific Merit, granted by the Ministry of Science and Technology. He was Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and at the Center of Brazilian Studies at Oxford University. Member of the Economic and Social Development Council of Minas Gerais. He has worked mainly on the following topics: crime and violence, public safety, public safety 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 to control and prevent 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: on the themes of homicides and victimization in urban spaces. In addition, it provides for writing on urban spaces and crime and the publication of at least one article in a scientific journal. All these texts will address a crucial issue for reflection on security in Brazil, which is the relationship of urban spaces in the production of violence and crime control. This is a cross-sectional research theme that requires the competition of a wide range of knowledge from distant disciplinary matrices.