RT Article T1 Introduction to Special issue: Brazilian Criminology in the 21st Century JF Journal of contemporary criminal justice VO 38 IS 1 SP 4 OP 12 A1 Ceccato, Vania 1968- LA English YR 2022 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1786542978 AB This article introduces the special issue “Brazilian Criminology in the 21st Century” that is composed of seven studies of contemporary security problems and related public security initiatives in Brazil. They are multidisciplinary contributions employing a large variety of methods, written by researchers based on Brazilian universities or research executed in cooperation with international colleagues. This is a unique and valuable reference source for researchers interested in Brazilian and Latin American security challenges as well as attempts to address them. By recognizing current barriers in knowledge production and sharing, the special issue calls for the creation of new opportunities for joint knowledge from the “criminologies” of the Global South and those from the Global North, befitting an inclusive global criminology worthy of the 21st century. K1 Knowledge sharing K1 Publication K1 Barriers K1 Multidisciplinary K1 Global South K1 Brazilian criminalogy K1 Safety K1 Crime DO 10.1177/10439862211050450