O sistema de vigilância eletrônica como mecanismo de controle social: um estudo de caso sobre o videomonitoramento na cidade de Fortaleza e seus aspectos jurídicos gerais

Abstract

As a result of social changes, especially economic growth and the expansion of social inequality in large urban centers in a context that favors the commission of illicit acts, the state apparatus works to maintain social cohesion and the maintenance of power, making use of various coercive mechanisms. Thus, in this work, the video surveillance system installed in the city of Fortaleza will be addressed in order to act as a social control mechanism in addition to the legal aspects that permeate the problem of its use of this system. To achieve the objectives, a qualitative and quantitative-qualitative approach was used as a methodology. In order to know the problem about the study area, an exploratory research was carried out from a bibliographical review of doctrines, dissertations, scientific and journalistic articles and documental research. As a result, it was possible to observe that the video surveillance system fulfills its objective of being an instrument to aid in the management of public security in the exercise of formal social control of the population, in addition to the possibility of coexistence of constitutional guarantees that, in practice, oppose it. if, but to the detriment of this, the interest of the common good and the collectivity prevails.