Toque de recolher para crianças e adolescentes e redução de criminalidade: uma investigação empírica para os municípios de São Paulo

Abstract

In 2005, the city of Fernandópolis, located in São Paulo, took up the juvenile curfew for minors and adolescents. This decision did not come from the municipal level, but a courtroom decision. Subsequently, some municipalities in the state of São Paulo also decided to take up the juvenile curfew. In order to verify the effect of the ordinance in reducing crime, this article uses the difference in difference estimation to calculate the causal impact of the implementation of the ordinance in relation to municipalities that not adopted. Thus, the ordinance caused a decrease of 17.5% in thefts per thousand inhabitants in municipalities that adopted the ordinance.