(In)segurança pública: uma análise crítica acerca da violência policial contra crianças e adolescentes no Brasil

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on police violence against children and adolescents in Brazil. It is understood that police violence against children and adolescents is a social phenomenon, produced by a social structure of domination and reproduced by the State as a way of maintaining the subordination of certain social groups. For the construction of this research, a qualitative approach was used, through documentary research in journalistic reports published on Brazilian websites. To analyze the reality, the critical-dialectical method was used, and for data analysis, the content analysis technique was chosen. Police violence directed at the juvenile population has a specific profile of subjects: children and adolescents from the popular classes, belonging to communities and suburbs, black and black. The State's structural racism is notorious, which through its police apparatus and assistance/punitive policies act to criminalize poverty, debasement of rights, mass incarceration and genocide of black and peripheral populations in Brazil. In order to apprehend violence against children and adolescents in Brazilian society, with regard to police action, it is essential to carry out a historical and intersectional analysis that allows for unveiling the oppressions rooted in the sociability of capital.