Cachorro doido: lógicas, sentidos e compreensões da prática do tráfico de drogas e crimes patrimoniais no Estado do Espírito Santo

Abstract

Through semi-structured interviews with graduates convicted of drug trafficking and property crimes resident in Piúma/ES, we sought to analyze the elements that were common in the narrated trajectories and that, in some way, may be related to the involvement of interviewed in illegal practices or proved interesting as categories of analysis. Issues related to the level of family supervision received by the interviewees and contexts of tension in the domestic environment were discussed, as well as the interaction of these aspects with social learning aimed at the practice of illicit activities, using Polakowski (1994), Matsueda (1982 and 2010) and Silva (1999) as theoretical references. The findings related to social control and the factors that lead to giving up criminal activities were analyzed based on Shapland & Bottons (2017) and Junger-Tas (1992). The reports about the dynamics of marijuana use by the interviewees and how they articulated the use of this substance in their life stories and at the time of the interviews were interesting questions that also deserved analysis in a specific chapter, based on Alves (2015), Becker (2008), Rosa (2014) and Zinberg (1984). It was debated about the different meanings attributed by the interviewees to drug trafficking and the different reasons that led them to engage in these practices, as well as the logic behind the legal framework and the treatment of this conduct by the State, starting with Boiteux et al (2009), Lyra (2013) and Misse (2010). It was also discussed about the level of rationality and reflexivity presented by the interviewees for the illicit practices in which they were involved, using Becker (1968), Elster (2015) and Wikström (2017) as references. As a control group was carried out with the objective of validating the findings obtained from the first group of interviewees (residents in Piúma/ES who knew the professional condition of the interviewer), it was discussed the differences in the findings between the two groups on the topic of prison, based on Goffman (2014), Foucault (2014) and Christie (2018). The elements related to the theme of stigma were also analyzed, which only appeared in the first group of respondents, starting with Goffman (2017) and Bissoli (1997). Finally, the questions obtained in the interviews about the military police were discussed, especially the elements brought by the interviewees in the control group, based on Lima (2019), Misse et al (2013), Westley (1970) and Zaccone (2015).