Brazil on Trial: Mafia, Organized Crime, Gang, Terrorist Group - or, Simply, a 
Problem Created by a State Policy?

Diniz Pucci, Rafael

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Diniz Pucci, Rafael
Criminology, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Max Planck Society;

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Diniz Pucci, R. (2006). Brazil on Trial: Mafia, Organized Crime, Gang, Terrorist Group - or, Simply, a Problem Created by a State Policy?. Freiburg i. Br.: edition iuscrim.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002E-48D7-1

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The present article searches an explanation for the acts – in the period from the 12th until 19th of May 2006 – that were attributed to the PCC (First Command of the Capital) in Brazil, and impacted especially on the state of São Paulo. Firstly, it analyses the debate concerning the mass imprisonment model that Brazil has followed in the last fifteen years. Then, it tries to summarize those facts and, further, it attempts to discuss what kind of actor the PCC is – is it a Terrorist Organization, as one Brazilian newspaper labeled it? A Mafia style organisation (as a German newspaper called it)? A Gang (as an Italian newspaper stated) or a Criminal Organization (French, Spanish and Argentinean newspapers)?