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The Federal Constitution and the Organic Law of Social Assistance (LOAS) provide that the population will participate in the formulation of social assistance policies and in the control of actions. Thus, this paper analyzes how the social control exercised in the Councils of Social Assistance Public Policies can impact the implementation of these policies. Bibliographic and documentary research was carried out on articles, websites, books, theses and dissertations, legislation, and resolutions. Thus, it was verified that, althougt social control functions as a structuring axis for decisionmaking processes in the Councils of Social Assistance Public Policies, it does not perform its attributions to strengthen and improve the Councils and, consequently, in the implementation of public policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper focuses on narratives about criminality published in police editorials in the printed press in Salvador, Brazil. It establishes comparisons between news about crime and criminal statistics, discussing the growth of urban violence. It indicates the types of crime more prevalent in the metropolitan areas of Salvador, distinguishing between the crimes committed by poor delinquents and those committed by agents of organized crime. It compares great quantities of statistics involved in criminal activity in 1996, collected as part of the Nud*st program, a study which focused on news about daily crime, data about victims and, the condemnation of crime by society. The paper analyzes the logic behind the police page in the press, indicating the commercial interests of the press, the impact on public opinion in order to cement relations between editors and police chiefs. Due to the advantages for both parties, reporters became spokesmen for the police, creating a posture of ethos for police, reproducing police jargon, popularizing police techniques, and frequently justifying police brutality. By use and abuse of photographs of suspects and guilty offenders, through willingness to reveal names and directions of informers, identifying popular ghettos as crime sanctuaries, and printing photos of those who ran afoul of the penal system, police editors became part of the problem of urban crime. In conclusion, the press operates, when it has no links with the police, as a register of social control which either legitimizes or combats crime, focuses indirectly on victimization, and intensifies or mediates and dramatizes social impotence in the control of urban violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the border shared by Peru, Colombia and Brazil has become an enclave of drug production and trafficking for the international markets. It is a territory whose control is disputed by non-state actors and where state security forces suffer from severe material and transport limitations. This paper takes an ethnographic approach to explain the limitations of border security and the institutional challenges of controlling drug and wood trafficking in this context. It places the ideas of reproduction and social change at the centre of the discussion on drugs and borders, as key ways of thinking about the dynamics of growing and processing coca-derived drugs in the global South. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]