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Security & Strategic Review - March 2016 (ISSN 1741-4202)

BRAZIL: Record number of homicides

There were a total of 59,627 murders in Brazil in 2014, making it the country with the highest absolute number of homicides in the world – according to Atlas da Violência 2016, a report on trends in violence from 2004-2014 prepared by think tank Fórum Brasileiro de Segurança Pública and the Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Ipea), a research body attached to the Brazilian presidency.

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