Justiça através do linchamento? um recorte de casos ocorridos em Alagoas no ano de 2012-2018

Abstract

This article intends to understand the social phenomenon of lynchings that occurred in Alagoas in the period from 2012 to 2018. The article used data made available by the Secretariat of Public Security of Alagoas (SSP-AL), local reports and literature that address the theme both directly and indirectly to try to understand what would motivate citizens to commit lynching and the elements thatwouldenhancethissocialphenomenon.Theapproach ofthisarticlewasthequalitativeanalysisofinformationmadeavailableinlocalreportsonthe subject, and the quantitative analysis ofexistingdataonthesubject,howeverthearticleseeks to emphasize the difficulties of reaching a definitive answer given the restriction and lack of reliability of much of this data. Of the data on cases of lynchings occurred in the period mentioned,itispossibletoobservearemarkablescarcityofinformationaboutvictimsandthe number of cases, which contradicts the high number of cases reported in the local news. Despite data restrictions, it is possibletoverifyapatterninthevictimsoflynchings,inwhich men, brown, young and with low-income are the majority of victims, such data reflect the way in which violence occurs in the country as a whole, where the same profile of lynching victims are similar to victims of other types of homicide. This article intendstocontributeto future studies that address the subject of lynching, aiming to bring greater interest to the subjectgiventhelackofstudiesthataddressesit.