%0 Journal Article %T Preven£¿£¿o ao crime e teoria social %A Sento-S¨¦ %A Jo£¿o Trajano %J Lua Nova: Revista de Cultura e Pol¨ªtica %D 2011 %I Centro de Estudos de Cultura Contempor?nea, CEDEC %R 10.1590/S0102-64452011000200002 %X the article establishes a dialogue between positivist criminology and some contemporary currents on crime prevention inspired in sociological theories. through this exercise, we seek to highlight that some of the formulations focused in the preventions field appear, in embryonic state, in the positivist theoretical agenda. likewise, it is possible to explicit that some empirical and practical tenets of positivism are less foreign to contemporary theories of crime prevention than is usually recognized. %K criminology %K violence prevention theories %K social theory. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0102-64452011000200002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en