the study Da 'metáfora da guerra' ao projeto de 'pacificação': favelas e políticas de segurança pública no Rio de Janeiro (from metaphorical war to the pacification project: favelas and public security policies in rio de janeiro) by Márcia Pereira Leite, professor and researcher at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, examines the social construction of favelas as the territory of the violence in the city of Rio de Janeiro in two contexts. in the first instance, the study covers the years 1990 to 2000 showing the war waged against criminal organizations, while the second focuses on the work done as of 2008, following the installation of the pacifying police.

Published by Carlos Alberto da Lima in 2012, the book Os 583 Dias da Pacificação Dos Complexos da Penha e do Alemão (the 583 Days of the Pacification of the Penha and German Complexes) by Colonel Carlos Alberto de Lima charts the very first pacification process that took place in two favela conglomerates, considered the bastions of drug trafficking in 2010.