Illicit 'Cannabis' Crops in Brazil: Inequalities, Alternative Income and Remunerated Farming Paulo Cesar Pontes Fraga e Jorge Atilio Silva Iulianelli This article intends to analyse the issue of cannabis production in the Vale do São Francisco region in Northeast Brazil, the largest area of cannabis farming in the country. To discuss the reasons that lead to the farming of this herb, we attempted to identify the principal players involved in its farming and the relations, both pacific and hostile, established between them. Cultivation of the plant is established against a backdrop of illicit culture formed and institutionalized as a complementary market to legal crops, an alternative source of income in the absence of an agricultural policy in the region. Keywords: illegal crops, cannabis, drugs policy, rural workers, Northeast Brazil Download (in Portuguese) What's the Price of this Thrill? Drugs Consumption and Social Position Pedro Paulo de Oliveira The article aims to assess the symbolism attached to drugs for young consumers in Rio de Janeiro with specific leisure contexts: on the one hand, those with high social position, who frequent raves and parties characterised by electronic dance music and, on the other, those from low income backgrounds who go out to funk parties. Using qualitative investigative methods and taking into account the users' opinions obtained through semi-structured interviews, setting up and moderating focus groups plus ethnographic records, the research reveals the distance between the images that youths from distinct social backgrounds paint of themselves as consumers of psychoactive substances. Keywords: drugs, youths, electronic music, funk, class Download (in Portuguese) The Police in Transition: The Professional-Bureaucratic Model of Policing and Hypotheses Regarding Limits to the Professionalization of Brazilian Police Forces Eduardo Cerqueira Batitucci The article reviews the evolution of the so-called professional-bureaucratic model of policing, its traits and dilemmas, in Anglo-Saxon countries. Based on historical characteristics of police professionalization, especially in USA, we attempt to anticipate some hypotheses associated to its incorporation and transformation in Brazilian police forces in recent years, underlining some of the limits that, despite its achievements, the model had presented in other countries, such as the high level of discretion of police officers on street duty and the social isolation of the police organisation. Keywords: professionalism, discretion, Military Police, rationality, bureaucracy Download (in Portuguese) Mediation and Settlements in the Judiciary: Dilemmas and Meanings Kátia Sento Sé Mello e Bárbara Gomes Lupetti Baptista objective of this article is to describe and analyse mediation and settlement practices in the sphere of the Rio de Janeiro State Judiciary. An understanding is sought of the process of institutional changes through which Brazilian society has been passing since the 1980s, the different meanings attributed to these doctrines by the diverse operators in the legal field and by the users in contexts in which they are engaged. The primary question that guides this research is ascertaining to what extent the State can reduce the gap between the law and the courts of the society, through these new doctrines of conflict management. Keywords: conflict management, settlement, mediation, Judiciary Download (in Portuguese) The Militarisation of Justice and Defence of Democracy Daniel dos Santos The article  addresses the current modes of public action of increasing militarism and questions the threat this represents to citizenship, counterposed to the State and institutions. The control of security technologies and representations has led to the spread of militarism, which has been incorporated into society, fragmenting it and placing ultrapolitical thought at risk. Democracy, only possible through such thought, must therefore revise the concepts of liberty, equality and fraternity in order to reform the currently militarised justice system and incorporate values such as unconditional forgiveness and hospitality. Keywords: militarism, democracy, justice, citizenship, State Download (in Portuguese) The Durkenheimian Concept of Moral Regulation of the Economy José Benevides Queiroz For Durkheim, as morals make social life possible, it is implausible to consider any aspect of society that dispenses of morality. Based on that reference, this article demonstrates that, even without ever having discussed economics as the central theme of his investigations, the sociologist actually develops thoughts about economists and, especially, about the economic life of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Our work systematises Durkheim's economic thought and discusses the scope and limits of his proposal to overcome the state of anomie in which the economy found itself. As we show, he defends the need to subject the economy to moral regulation. Keywords: Durkheim, anomie, regulation, economy, morals Download (in Portuguese) Love and sex in the internet Interview with Jean-Claude Kaufmann Mirian Goldenberg Download (in Portuguese)

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