“There is the body extended on the floor”: an analysis of the context of homicides processed in the court of the jury of Campina Grande/PB

• Autor(a) principal: de Andrade, Diana Freitas
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da Defensoria Pública da União (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistadadpu.dpu.def.br/article/view/384
• topic: Violência. Homicídio. Tribunal do júri.

Violence has occupied a central place in the contemporary political and scientific debate. Inthis article, the violent phenomenon is examined from a specific form of violence: homicidecrimes. This cut is necessary because not all forms of violence are subject to registration, andbecause, even in the cases where these settlements exist, the accounted data represents onlya minimal portion of the violence actually perpetrated. The present study proposes to tracethe context of homicide occurrence, based on the analysis of the information collected inthe judicial processes of the Jury Court of Campina Grande / PB, with crimes that occurredbetween the years 2000 to 2010. The sample was composed of 116 cases, 289 subjects were analyzed, being 173 defendants and 136 victims. Analyzing the data, it was found that homicideis a violent manifestation involving people whose places of residence are concentrated insome neighborhoods, especially in the West Zone of the city. In addition, the finding that theneighborhoods where most defendants and victims live are also those where homicides occurmost indicates the relevance of this spatial distribution of murders. On the other hand, crimesderive from wide access to firearms and, on some occasions, are related to contexts of alcoholuse and to the dynamics of drug trafficking and use.