Análise criminal: a compreensão da criminalidade em Salvador.

Abstract

The present dissertation had as objective to evaluate models, trends and seasonalities related to homicides that occurred in Salvador, between 2012 and 2016, from the application of the Strategic Criminal Analysis. It was used as methodology the Grounded Theory backed on two phases: initially in an eminently quantitative collection and, posteriorly, in semi-structured interviews, propitiating the codification process and categorization that culminated in a substantive theory able to explaining and contextualizing the studied phenomenon. The paradigm that guided the research was the functionalist, in a post-positivist conception, producing systematized knowledge in an utilitarian dimension. The association and using of the Criminal Analysis with the Grounded Theory was delineated as an effective trajectory for the management of the public security and for regional development. In the research temporal lapse, in Salvador city, adopting the homicide criminal type as an analysis category, the neighborhoods that includes the highest indices were identified, the social and economic characterization of these neighborhoods was accomplished, the homicide temporality was delineated, the victims profile and of the murder, the main motivation and the tendency of linear prediction of the increase of this crime, categories that allowed an understanding of the criminal dynamic in the city. The produced theory was named like criminogenic status theory: to integrate a street gang linked to trafficking drugs or consuming narcotics in needy neighbourhoods of Salvador city symbolizes social status in a paradigm that configures the violence like a power imposition instrument.