Vulnerable Youth. Resolução 20 and Operação Verão: two security measures in Rio de Janeiro
In the 2024/4 issue, volume XVIII, of the journal Rassegna Italiana di Criminologia, the article “Vulnerable Youth. Resolução 20 and Operação Verão: two security measures in Rio de Janeiro”
Red Zones and the Obsession with Security. Interview with Prof. Roberto Cornelli on Radio Popolare
Red Zones and the Obsession with Security. An Early Year Review.
L. Squillace (2024), Vulnerable Youth. Resolução 20 and Operação Verão: two security measures in Rio de Janeiro.
The article aims to examine two urban security measures, the Resolução 20 (Resolution 20) and the Operação Verão (Operation Summer), implemented in Rio de Janeiro, and targeting young people in situations of social vulnerability. The first is aimed at children and adolescents living on the streets, while the second, carried out at the city’s main beaches, focuses on controlling young people from the outskirts and favelas.
L. Squillace, R. Cornelli, I. Cano (2024), Fear and Surveillance on the Beaches of Rio de Janeiro: the Operação Verão
This article presents the findings of a qualitative study on Operação Verão (Operation Summer), a police operation on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro targeting collective thefts attributed to young people from the peripheries: the arrastão. It analyzes the perceptions of beachgoers and law enforcement officers and demonstrates how citizens’ fears have evolved into a perpetual panic, demanding increasingly harsh security measures.
A Compass for Rethinking Security Policies
The challenge of moving from security rights for some to security rights for all.
The Determinants of Urban Security Policies
The project aims to identify the reasons behind the rise of increasingly punitive security policies over the past thirty years. Specifically, it empirically examines bottom-up models (policies as a response to citizen demands) and top-down models (policies as a tool used by elites to shape public opinion) to determine which is more explanatory of the Italian context.