Economia política da letalidade policial no capitalismo dependente brasileiro: o caso do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (2000-2021)

• Autor(a) principal: Roorda, João Guilherme Leal
• Data de Publicação: 2022
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• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/19824
• topic: Police killings; Dependency theory; Neoliberalism; Political economy of punishment; Letalidade policial; Teoria Marxista da dependência; Neoliberalismo; Economia política da punição; CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::DIREITO::DIREITO PUBLICO::DIREITO PENAL

This thesis aims to offer a contribution to the study of police killings in Brazil, from the perspective of the political economy of punishment. The case of the state of Rio de Janeiro is the specific object of analysis, with special emphasis on the period between 2000 and 2021. Official data provided by the state government is analyzed, as well as existing empirical research. First, a review of critical criminology foundational works allows a comprehension of the Law/Police dialectics as a central tension of the punitive form in capitalism. Having established the theoretical grounds, the thesis advances to analyze the phenomenon of police killings, understanding it as a manifestation of the underground punitive system and concluding that its chronic character can only be understood from the point of view of its relation to Brazilian social structure. Finally, with the help of the category of superexploitation of labor power, the relation between police killings, on the one hand, and dependency and the particular formations of Brazilian neoliberalism, on the other, becomes evident. The thesis concludes that critical criminology and the political economy of punishment, despite recent accusations, continues to be the best equipped perspective to access the phenomenon.