A polícia militar e o denominado "crime organizado" na gestão da periferia urbana: notas acerca das experiências juvenis

Abstract

The present study investigate how two violent actors, the local police and an “organized crime” faction, interfere in the day life of self-declarated poor and black youth of an urban fringe of Natal, located in the Brazilian Northeast. To obtain the needed information to the development of this investigation, the researcher adopted the posture of a participant viewer inserting himself in the investigated community over nine months and performing thirteen observations registered in the field diary. The information arising from the diaries were schematized into discussion topics and interpreted with inspiration on the dialectical and historical materialism perspective of reality comprehension. For that matter, highlighting as results of the research, on one hand the presence of the faction as a controller agent of social life, through the enforced code of conduct and violent sanctions to the residents of the neighborhood or the cooptation of young adults called in economic deregulation times in the capitalist periphery to do activities related to the illegal drug market; on the other hand, the local police that when called to fight crime acts with exhibitionistic actions ineffective on the decrease of urban violence and constitutive in the criminalization process of poverty, especially by identifying the peripheral communities as dangerous places, stigmatizing the native population and, in specific, the black youth. Surrounded by an excluding economic system, the State violence, the community faction and the possibility of a violent action of a rival faction that can lead to social death as well as biological, it’s understandable in this context the young, poor, black and resident of periphery as someone situated in the crossfire between the crime and the police.