Trajetórias divergentes: uma revisão das teorias de criminalidade urbana

• Autor(a) principal: Couto, Maria Isabel Macdowell
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15537
• topic: Criminality; Drug Dealing; Youth; Criminalidade; Tráfico de drogas; Juventude; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA

Through the analysis of available theories of crime and deviance, this paper searches to find a path of research that accounts for the following question: Why some young people engage in illegal activities related to drug dealing in the Rio de Janeiro s slums while others do not? This is, therefore, essentially a revision of the concerning theories in Brazil and in the United States. The main purpose is to raise questions for future research that bring together the cardinal points of both academic productions, incorporating both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. In this context, the present paper stands for the development of an analysis that emphasizes the agency of individuals through the observation of their aspirations and expectations effects on their life trajectories. Nevertheless, such a perspective should not ignore the role played by the social structure and the social interactions in the constitution of the same aspirations and expectations