Jovens adultos na criminalidade e as políticas públicas de segurança em Pernambuco

Abstract

Crime is linked to several factors, many of them linked to the lack of access to social rights and protections and has a direct origin in the social inequality that is structuring the social formation of Brazil. Another dimension associated with the commission of crimes and / or infractions is directed to the field of consumption or the search for access. Many studies point to this relationship mainly with regard to involvement with drug trafficking and / or theft of adolescents and young adults. In the country, crime and the response by the State of mass incarceration generates major impacts for society, Brazil currently occupies the fourth position in the incarceration ranking, with the mark of 338 prisoners per 100 thousand inhabitants (INFOPEN, 2019). In view of this situation, the tendency is for the effects to be greater in states where public policy related to combating crime and crime is inconsistently organized. In this sense, the objective of this article is to analyze the case of Pernambuco, through a government program, Pacto pela Vida, which has been in force in the state since 2007 and aims to constantly monitor and evaluate actions through crime rates, using as an indicator Intentional Lethal Violent Crimes. To understand the relationship between consumption and crime, the study has a qualitative character and sought to analyze the relationship between crime and consumption based on factors of criminalization among young people aged 18 to 30 years in the state. The data collection was done through exploratory, bibliographic and documentary research. The results point to the relationship between criminality, social inequality and expressions of consumer society manifested through unrestrained capitalism, reaffirming the essentiality of comprehensive public policies aimed at security in order to change this difficult reality.