Bases Teóricas Y Operativas De La Criminología Ambiental

Impact of Dam Collapses on Violence in Minas Gerais, Brazil

“…Among the explanations for the occurrence of a crime, environmental criminology has emerged as a reflection of the maturation of space-social theories -whose touchstone is the statement that all criminal acts occur in some space. In part inspired by Oscar Newman's early physical approach (Newman 1972), discussions on this issue today are characterized by a more integrated conceptualization, considering several aspects that may influence different types of crime, going beyond the approaches that concern the reasons why criminals are engendered, to think about the circumstances in which crime is carried out (Beato Filho 1998;Clarke & Eck 2003;Gartner 2008;Guillén 2013) This area of study of environmental criminology developed in the late 1980s, based on studies by Paul and Patricia Brantingham, considering contextual and related factors related to the surroundings to explore how opportunities for criminal practices and antisocial behaviours are produced (Gartner 2008;Guillén 2013). The fragmentation of the territory, its privatization and the emptying of public spaces perpetrate the feeling of insecurity -which is consistent with private security solutions in the form of buildings and walls, as stated by Caldeira (2000), Siqueira (2016) and Figueira (2016).…”

“…The fragmentation of the territory, its privatization and the emptying of public spaces perpetrate the feeling of insecurity -which is consistent with private security solutions in the form of buildings and walls, as stated by Caldeira (2000), Siqueira (2016) and Figueira (2016). As Guillén (2013) outlines, environmental criminology is based on three premises: (i) the environment significantly influences the deviant behaviour, (ii) offences are not randomly distributed in space and time, focusing on some concrete places and moments, so that it is possible to establish specific areas that are more likely to occur in a crime -socalled hot spots, and (iii) strategies based on interventions in urban space can help to respond to the problem of insecurity and violence.…”