Ashley Cain visited dangerous places around the world - and tried to understand why some young men choose a life of crime.

Police ride past residents in a bulldozer they use to clear street barricades during a security operation against organized crime in the Mare Complex favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Oct. 9, ...

A new anti-crime bill in Brazil targets the son of a jailed Red Command gang leader ... “On top of being a young black man from the favela, who sings rap, trap, and funk, he is the son of Marcinho VP.

Police in Piauí, Brazil, seized a drug dealer's parrot that had been used as a lookout to alert gang members of approaching ...

Thousands of Brazilian army troops raided Rio de Janeiro slums in a pre-dawn crackdown on crime gangs over the weekend ... of the Olympic Games. Five favelas were targeted by around 1,300 police ...

Rocinha is the largest favela in Brazil. It is located in the southern ... diarrhoea and other diseases. Organised crime and gang violence are also common. Unemployment rates are high (up to ...

Much of the Brazilian drug trade is concentrated in Rio de Janeiro, where the lower levels of trafficking hierarchy are dominated by organized crime gangs ensconced in the favelas. Battles for ...

The Brazilian Federal Police announced ... can be cleaned from organized crime and the drug cartels operating mostly in the favelas, where millions of Brazilians live, next to the rich and famous.

Rodrigo’s pen-and-ink portraits of Brazilian celebrities ... thanks to an award-winning 2002 crime movie of the same name, was one of the first favelas to be invaded by security forces.