Dr. Ben Penglase has recently contributed a blog post on the police pacification of marginalized neighborhoods in Rio in advance of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics for the website Anthropoliteia, "a group blog about police, policing and security from an anthropological perspective."  The posting, entitled "Pacifying Rio's favela's: Innovation, adaptation, or continuity,"  is for a special forum on Anthropoliteia, called "Security in Brazil: World Cup 2014 and Beyond."  It can be found here.