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The constant media bombardment or even personal experiences from each one of us, immersed in our own way in daily violence, does not explain the roots of violence. To achieve a deeper study about this obscure universe, the authors gathered a dense reflection in this collection of essays.

This book, organized by Del Priori and Müller, helps us think about violence continuity and its various faces. “Several authors are gathered to try to define a set of phenomena of physical, sexual and verbal violence and try to understand the mechanisms that put them in gear”, the organizers point in the preface. “Historians, sociologists, jurists, anthropologists, and psychologists have studied several cases over the centuries in the history of crimes and violence in Brazil. The guiding line is centered on the idea of how crime and the use of violence have been and are part of our society”.

Throughout its 16 chapters, each composed of independent articles that orbit the universe of violence, this book does not intend to show a chronology of crimes and violence in Brazil, “but invites readers to reflect on the forms of infractions that have made and are part of our daily lives with hope that society will find new forms of tolerance, coexistence and solidarity".