Análise de indicadores temáticos da criminalidade violenta no estado da Paraíba e suas correlações com os gastos públicos em segurança pública.

Abstract

The area of public security in Brazil has been going through a crisis that has worsened over the last few years. Problems associated with the considerable increase in crime and the lack of effective public policies that help combat it routinely threaten the daily lives of Brazilians, constantly jeopardizing the personal and patrimonial integrity of citizens. Occupying 106th place among 163 countries analyzed, Brazil has a high rate of deterioration of the peace, being the most violent in South America, in the period from 2013 to 2016, followed by Chile and Venezuela. Following this trend, the state of Paraíba still has considerable non-standard crime rates, with the 15th highest rate of intentional violent deaths among the 27 units of the Brazilian federation. The objective of this research was to investigate the correlation between public security expenditures and levels of violent crime in the state of Paraíba, between 2012 and 2017. The specific objectives were to analyze the evolution of indicators of violent crime of the State of Paraíba, comparing them with the indicators of a unit of the federation that had reduction in this aspect; to analyze the action by the public managers of Paraíba in the fight against violent crime, highlighting the effectiveness of public resources for public security; to make a diagnosis about the influence of public security expenditures in the State of Paraíba on the evolution of violent crime in the State. To do so, we adopted a quantitative approach, of a descriptive nature, through the comparative method and the use of descriptive statistics. The results showed that public security spending in the State of Paraíba has an influence on the increase / decrease of violent state crime, but investing in public policies aimed at fighting only one type of crime does not reduce this phenomenon effectively.