Ethnographic inserts into crime: some considerations on research conducted in Brazil between 2000 and 2017This article aims to review research on criminal practices conducted in Brazil through an ethnographic perspective. The period selected, from 2000 to 2017, is justified by the substantial increase in studies involving field research and that seek to understand analytically illegal markets and illegalisms, collective criminality and the ethics, morality and 147 politics in crime. We emphasize the contributions of these researches to the academic debate on these themes, as well as the methodological and ethical dilemmas involved in the empirical construction of the field.