Venture out on a moonlit night and you might encounter the pricolici, the devilish werewolves said to be the restless spirits of violent men.
They'd been married, the story went, to vicious, violent men.
More useful would be to use the next seven years to coax the violent young men of the favelas to take up sport, or to get construction jobs.
Whereas violent crime against men has declined in the past five years, violence against women has increased.
"We are investigating the role of some of our men in violent acts, " police official Afhadul Mujtaba told the BBC.
The vast majority of prisoners in any country are not violent criminals or dangerous psychopaths, but young men who have committed a non-violent property crime, or got into some relatively minor scrape with the law.
For millennia, human society has struggled with what to do with young men's violent tendencies.
At an earlier hearing in May 2012, seven men were convicted of violent disorder.
Sixteen men faced charges of violent disorder and attempting to wound with intent over Mr Barrett's death at Manchester Crown Court.
Universally, most street crimes and a good share of violent crimes are committed by young men, usually between the ages of about 15 and 24.
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In his verdict, the judge said the men were "contemptible and violent".
Hours later at the height of the rescue operation a second, more violent blast resulted in the deaths of another 53 men.
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Well were reduced to 10 men after the break when David Clarkson was sent off for violent conduct.
America's violent Wild West, she points out, had a huge preponderance of men.
Most Americans think that dangerous criminals, which statistically usually means young men, should go to prison for long periods of time, especially for violent offences.
The old watchman sat under this tree, and Nawab and the other younger men would sit with him at dusk, teasing him, trying to make his violent temper flare up, and joking around with one another.
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