A Relação estigma-desvio como elemento norteador no uso da violência ou da força na atividade policial

Abstract

The police activity presents various possibilities of interpretation and a variety of points of view is therefore necessary to develop a series of research that contributes to your understanding as a sociological category. Thus, this research sought to focus its analysis on how police car police Battalion of the Military Police of Alagoas understand the fundamental concepts of force and violence seeking to notice if they are able to differentiate these concepts considering the possibility that the police are developing an action of violence applying to this an understanding of action guided by the force. Likewise , for those who sought to understand the police action is being directed and how they build their social representations based on the stigma of the enemy that must be fought and how effective is the relationship of these stigmas with the application of the label of deviant to a stigmatized subject . The subjective construction of police comprising the "Mala" as the executioner and the periphery of its territory as belonging promoted the understanding police strategies and ways to combat and hunting of this supposed enemy. To that end, we developed a relationship between the theoretical foundations of Howard Becker and Erving Golfman.