Desenvolvimento e criminalidade: Um estudo do perfil dos adolescentes em conflito com a lei penal internos no Lar do Garoto – PB

Abstract

This dissertation presents the results of an investigation into the relationship between the economic development process experienced and rising crime rates. The study is motivated by the intention to show the relationship between the above indices and the economic and social transformations observed. Assume as hypothesis that the violation of rights, especially the criminality, is the result of a development process, which promots the increase of asymmetries, just redounding the weaknesses that lead to serious social problems, such as violence. This time, inserted in a development context, the general objective is the analysis of aspects of juvenile crime in Campina Grande and surroundings, in contrast to the development of data within the context presented; and as specific objectives: investigate the complexity of the development term; contextualize theoretically Development, State and Crime; search for the profile of the internal adolescents in the House Padre Otávio Santos, at Lagoa Seca City; and, finally, aims to confront the economic development and state action with the results obtained in the field research. From a methodological point of view, the research is divided into two phases, namely, bibliographic and field research. As for the last, it is said that is exploratory and is characterized as qualitative as to the content of the data, and quantitative regarding the occurrence of crimes. The locus of empirical research is the adolescent’s home in conflict with the penal law - Home Padre Otavio Santos - located in Lagoa Seca City / PB. The survey results, presented here, pointed that criminality, with emphasis on cases of children in conflict with the law, it´s a really intrinsic factor in the development process.