SOCIAL ADVOCACY SERVICES

Economically motivated crimes are primarily responsible for high victimization in Brazil. Robbery and theft produce more than 6,000,000 victims/year. Drug trafficking and theft are responsible for most armed confrontations between police and criminals, in the last two decades we have become the 2nd largest consumer of drugs in the world and one of the main exporters of cocaine to Europe and Africa. Criminal violence produces around 95,000 victims/year of completed or attempted homicides (2020) and more than 58,000 records/year of completed or attempted rapes (2020), even though most are the result of interpersonal criminal dynamics (between family members or known), a significant part occurs due to economically motivated crimes, such as robberies and drug trafficking. And even those motivated by interpersonal conflicts are potentiated by the presence of illicit arms markets.

Changing this situation is fundamental for the social and economic development of the country, controlling crime is the civilizing legacy of our generation for the next. For this, it is necessary and urgent to change the current context of the low cost of crime in Brazil, the result of three decades of wrong decisions made in the National Congress, which has been progressively eliminating the deterrent and disabling effect of the criminal law and the prison system. We need to recover and modernize these indispensable instruments for the control of crime, the protection of society, and civility itself.

Therefore, DIXIM created the Social Advocacy area. Our objective is to bring quality information and knowledge to society to participate effectively in the decision-making process on the content of criminal legislation, the format of the agencies of the criminal justice system, and criminal policy. For this, we developed the Illicit Economy Platform, which hosts the Census Panel and its Reports on the Illicit Economy in the country, main parameters based on primary data on illicit markets in Brazil; and the Protection and Justice Network, the first social organization dedicated to promoting the rights of victims and the duty of protection in the State.