“…This perception, promoted in the first phase of critical criminology and developed during the dictatorship period, allowed, in the following decades, the national critical thinking to transcend negative views (criminology of denouncing) and the proposal of new public policies (criminology of praxis) aimed towards the efficacy of rights (for example, policies to address mass incarceration, reduce police violence, revise the programme of war against drugs, increase access to justice, revaluate victims, and so on) (Carvalho and Achutti, 2021;Carvalho and Matos, 2021a). In the current century, Brazilian critical criminology expands its domains, developing further research in specific areas like cultural and green criminology and the intersection of race, class, and gender through black, feminist, and queer criminology (Carvalho, 2022).…”