Espetacularização e estigmatização nas matérias sobre crimes/criminalidade publicadas no Diário da Borborema (Campina Grande/PB): uma análise de conteúdo referente ao período de junho a novembro de 2009.

Abstract

This work focuses generally on ways by which facts classified as criminal are presented in the Press. We analyze specifically a corpus constituted by news about crimes as published in the Diário da Borborema (Campina Grande-Paraíba), during the period of June-November/2009. The theoretical perspective is based in the discussion done by Foucault on social functions of showing crimes and their punition on media presented in Discipline and Punish and in the debate on social stigmatization processes done by Goffinan. The methodology we used was inspired on Content Analysis, which put together the quantitative and qualitative approaches. The main outputs of this work are the following: The Content Analysis we carried out based on a corpus constituted by news about crimes and criminality published in the Diário da Borborema (Campina Grande-Paraíba), from June until November/2009, has confirmed what is stablished in the specialized literature on the association between poverty and criminality (cf. MISSE, 1995; SOARES, 2010), which has been built through a bigger ammount of news that describe the criminais as poor people than those which describe them as rich people, and the space devoted to crimes committed by poor than for those committed by individuais from the upper classes. We also observed differences in the language used in the subjects who reported crimes committed by individuais from different social classes