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0142/2024 - Armed Violence and Illicit Drug Trade. An integrative literature review on Brazil.
Violência Armada e Comércio de drogas ilícitas. Uma revisão integrativa de literatura sobre o Brasil.

Author:

• Mayalu Matos Silva - Silva, M. M. - <mayalu@ensp.fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0345-1902

Co-author(s):

• Patricia Constantino - Constantino, P. - <paticons2015@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5835-0466


Abstract:

The article maps relationships between armed violence (AV) and the illicit drug trade (IDT) in Brazil through an integrative review focused on empirical research. The sample included 20 articles, categorized according to year of publication and fieldwork, objectives, methods, study location and results. The results were interpreted based on thematic content analysis and showed that the relationship between IDT and AV occurs mainly through Organized Armed Violence. However, this violence spreads, affecting society, especially residents of peripheral areas. The following stood out: Availability of Firearms (AF), with a broad presence in the IDT environment; Illegality and violence, highlighting the need to use FA for the IDT due to its illegality and militarized perspective of repression; State action, thematizes the absence of preventive public security in peripheral areas and the violent, corrupt and ineffective action of the State; Armed territorial dominance, shows the strength of the organized IDT groups and the effects on the population; Young black people: primary victims and perpetrators, highlights the vulnerability of these young people to AV and also Health impacts. The militarized and violent policy has not been offering results to control the phenomenon. New approaches are needed to deal with the issue, centered on the perspective of health and human dignity.

Keywords:

Illicit Drug Trade, Gun Violence, Drug Control, Homicides, Health Disparate, Minority and Vulnerable Populations

Content:

Armed Violence and Illicit Drug Trade. An integrative literature review on Brazil.


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Silva, M. M., Constantino, P.. Armed Violence and Illicit Drug Trade. An integrative literature review on Brazil.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2024/Apr). [Citado em 24/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/armed-violence-and-illicit-drug-trade-an-integrative-literature-review-on-brazil/19190?id=19190



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