Território, violência e medo em Pilar – Alagoas: uma análise a partir dos homicídios registrados no período 2010/2014

Abstract

In today's world, investigate and reflect about violence in any typologies seem natural, given its banality. Therefore, no one is free from this phenomenon. In this perspective, it was sought to analyze the territorial dimension of violence and fear emanating from the city of Pilar - Metropolitan region of Maceió (MRM), based on the murders recorded in 2010/2014. In this interval, for three times, Pilar led the homicide indices in the state of Alagoas, as revealed in the 2011, 2014 and 2015 editions, by Map of Violence in Brazil, organized by the Latin American Faculty social Sciences (FLACSO-Brazil) Sangari Institute and other partner institutions. However, it was chose as reference the last two editions (2015 and 2016), which present the most recent data collection and cover the homicide by firearms in municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants between 2010 and 2014. Through the analyzed numbers, the documentary research made and questionnaires applied, added the bibliographic research that preceded them, it was possible to verify that the high rates of violence, as well as insecurity and fear, its felt intensely in the daily lives of the population. Thus, some of the city's citizens try to protect themselves by adhering to closed residential spaces and technical equipment that gives them a sense of security. Therefore, supposedly free from violent acts and resulting homicides, especially from disputes between drug traffickers and criminal factions, either for maintenance or for the conquest of new territorialities. Therefore, changing the configuration of the Pilarense territory.