Análise das ações de facções criminosas no Coroadinho

Abstract

The research deals with an analysis of how the actions of criminal factions in the Coroadinho neighborhood interfere in the security of the citizen and the provision of service by the Military Police of Maranhão. The action of criminal factions stands out for the increasing practice of violent acts, carried out in order to cause disturbances and fear in society, fostering an environment of insecurity in the population. The factions originated in prisons. Criminal factions dominated the Pedrinhas Penitentiary Complex in São Luís-Ma and later migrated to communities, increasing crime and installing terror in these places. It involves young people from the poorest communities, recruited for crimes. It is a social research, using a dialectic inductive method, with a qualitative approach, exploratory research, a case study. The instrument of data collection was the semi-structured interview applied with social actors: police, residents, community leaders and factioned. Research scenario was Polo Coroadinho, a neighborhood with low socioeconomic conditions and high crime. Data treatment based on the dialectical hermeneutic method. It found that the state's failure to provide social demands, deficient formal education, unemployment and lack of opportunities to enter the labor market contribute to the socioeconomic exclusion of young people and the most impoverished communities. Which for lack of state support, fear of urban violence they accept the interference of criminal factions that initially appear, as protectors of the most needy people, as protectors of this community where I am inserted. Thus, criminal groups directly interfere in the crime of the neighborhood, in the dynamics of criminal actions, in the lives of residents, in the perception of violence and security within the neighborhood, in the relationship between the community and public security forces, as well as in the very performance of the community. Police in the neighborhood