Summary
Preface – History of crimes and violence in Brazil. 7
Chapter 1. Today we are going to populate the sky: violence and martyrdom in the conversion of Portuguese America 11
Paulo de Asunción
Chapter 2. Two Homophobic Crimes in the Colonial Northeast 37
Luiz Mott
Chapter 3. “In compliance with the Law, we come to denounce, before your Lordship, the following criminal fact” 65
Randolpho Radsack Corrêa and Jonis Freire
Chapter 4. Breaking chains in the name of justice: dilemmas of authority and social classification in times of war 97
Vitor Izecksohn
Chapter 5. Sport, police case: crimes and conflicts in the sports spectacles of Rio de Janeiro of the 19th century 123
Victor Andrade de Melo
Chapter 6. Criminals in Brazilian literature. 155
Daniel Faria
Chapter 7. Violence as a spectacle: crime in Brazilian television (1961-2016) 177
Wagner Pinheiro Pereira
Chapter 8. “They killed a student. It could be your son”: the death of the secondary student Edson Luis in 1968 233
Angélica Müller
Chapter 9. Till death do us part 255
José César Coimbra
Chapter 10. “Impunity kills and deforests”: the Dorothy Stang case, a decade later 285
Marcelo Timotheo da Costa
Chapter 11. The banalization of hate: crimes of intolerance against Afro-Brazilian religions 303
Quezia Brandão
Chapter 12. The Rubens Paiva disappearance case: advances on the investigation of the National Commission of the Truth 321
Vivien Fialho da Silva Ishaq and Carolina de Campos Melo
Chapter 13. Corruption, the Old Lady 345
Vitor de Angelo
Chapter 14. Red card for football managers 379
Mauricio Murad
Chapter 15. History of digital crimes in Brazil 407
Marcelo Xavier de Freitas Crespo
Chapter 16. Changing frontiers: a new paradigm in the sociology of prisons? 433
Sérgio Adorno and Camila Nunes Dias
References 461
About the authors 481