Da relação entre tráfico de drogas e homicídios em Maceió

Abstract

This work aims to demystify the understanding built by public and social discourses about the relationship between homicide crimes and drug trafficking activity. It should be noted that the present work does not intend to exhaust the theme, nor to establish absolute truths, but rather to encourage debate about the research object, based on the analysis of theoretical discussions and empirical research. The first part of the analysis was based on the literary debate about the anti-drug policy, implemented in Brazil, of North American origin, using, as a basis, the arguments of authors who take a position contrary to the official discourses reproduced in our country, regarding of the reasons for dealing with drugs. We seek, above all, in this topic, to formulate the first impressions of how the subjects inserted in the drug market may also be victims and accused of homicide crimes. Then, in the next two chapters, a study was carried out about the reality of the state of Alagoas, which occupied, for many years, in the national rankings, the position of the most violent state, due to its high homicide rate, in terms of relative. Without disregarding historical or cultural studies on violence in this region, a look was made on the issue of drugs, in order to understand how, in Maceió, there may be a social plot in which registered homicides may have some connection with the drug trade. Illicit drugs. The research undertook to carry out a study of both a descriptive statistical and empirical-documentary nature, in which 228 electronic judicial processes judged in 2019 by the Jury Court of the three judicial units - 7th, 8th and 9th Courts - competent to prosecute and judge the intentional crimes against life, in the city of Maceió. Therefore, the analyzed cases were divided into three groups, based on the level of “drug presence”: direct, indirect and without. Although a high percentage (20%) was not identified, although relevant, in the rate of homicides committed as a result of a direct link with drug trafficking, there were several situations indirectly linked to it and its subjects, which contributes to a dynamic of interpersonal conflicts. It is concluded from the above reflection that drug trafficking alone is not a determining cause for the high rate of homicides in Maceió, however, when analyzed in conjunction with other factors, such as the state's own anti-drug policy , can favor its occurrence.