Perceptions about violence in the neighborhood of Benguí, Belém, Pará, Brazil, by territorial agents of Public Security and Social Defense

• Autor(a) principal: Araújo, Isis Kelma Figueiredo de
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Lima, Fernando Alberto Souza, Silva, Jorge Luiz Aragão, Silva, Ricardo André Biloia da, Chaves, Andrea Bittencourt Pires, Gomes, Marcus Alan de Melo, Chagas, Clay Anderson Nunes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/12201
• topic: Violência; Agentes territoriais; Segurança pública; Defesa social; Correntes sociológicas; Criminologia crítica.; Violencia; Agentes territoriales; Seguridad Pública; Defensa social; Corrientes sociológicas; Criminología crítica.; Violence; Territorial agents; Public security; Social defense; Sociological currents; Critical criminology.

This article aims to verify, among the theoretical currents of sociology that contribute to the understanding of the phenomenon of violence, which is the most expressive from the perception of public security agents responsible for dealing with occurrences of cases of violence in neighborhood of Benguí, in the city of Belém, state of Pará, Brazil. It is a quantitative study with structured questionnaires applied to military police and military firefighters, who worked in the referred neighborhood, to characterize and understand the phenomenon of violence. Alternative principles of sociological thought currents from Political Theory (Nicolau Machiavelli), Contractualism (Thomas Hobbes), Liberalism (Adam Smith), Functionalism (Émile Durkheim) and Comprehensive Sociology (Max Weber) were used in the alternatives. As a result, there was a prevalence of liberalist ideas, with 42% overall of responses. It was also found that Adam Smith's current was the most expressive at the elementary and middle school levels. Liberal prevalence was common among police and firefighters, except for the main cause of violence, in which the majority of firefighters aligned themselves with Nicolau Machiavelli's Political Theory. The results also showed correspondence to critical criminological thinking, about the selective understanding of public security agencies regarding violence and the failure of social control mechanisms in the neighborhood. It concluded that the liberal thinking was the most prevalent among the four perceptions investigated: a) main causes of violence in the neighborhood (35%); b) better solutions to the phenomenon (47%); c) greater difficulties in reaching solutions to violence (42%) and; d) reasons for strengthening drug trafficking in the neighborhood (45%).