O fenômeno de interiorização da violência e os impactos na qualidade democrática : um recorte da realidade no Nordeste Brasileiro.

Abstract

Violence and crime have been growing more and more in contemporary times, being an element present in Latin American countries. Homicide rates – one of the main means of measuring the levels of violence in a given place – have experienced an exponential increase in Brazil since the 1980s, with an increase that exceeds what is considered acceptable in numbers of violent deaths. intentional. Knowing that the concept of democracy has been related to several elements other than electoral ones, the public security factor has commonly been used to measure the levels of democratic quality in countries. Thus, the present objective of the work is to think about the concept of democracy from the analysis of perspectives related to public security and violence, in addition to reflecting on homicides in Brazil and thinking about the thesis of interiorization in the scenario of the Brazilian Northeast. For this, a methodology capable of achieving the proposed objective was used, based on a descriptive, exploratory and comparative study, based on theoreticalbibliographic research, as well as analysis of data collected on specific platforms on homicides and socioeconomic information. As conclusions of the research, it is clear that the violence of a given country is essential to think about the quality of democracy in that country, and that, in Brazil, the increase in homicides carries a scenario of inheritance of authoritarian elements experienced in other historical moments, and that from a spatial point of view, intentional violent deaths migrate to the Northeast, corroborating what is understood as the internalization of violence.