Orientações técnicas de evitabilidade de futuros homicídios

Abstract

This research is a product of reflections on practices in social and community psychology and management in public policies through my professional insertion. The objective of the research was to produce the technical product: technical guidelines for youth homicide prevention. Theoretical conceptualizations about youth, black youth, poor and living in peripheries, vulnerabilities that affect young victims of murder and the impact of public policies on the life trajectory of adolescents, were present as fundamental elements of construction of paths that seek another practice of acting in public policies, specifically those aimed at preventing homicides of youths. The research took place in the municipality of Sobral/CE, and included the analysis of ten Case Studies prepared by the Cell for the Study of Violent Deaths (CEMV), a structure linked to the Violence Project Management Unit (UGP-PV), in the years 2018 and 2019, with an age range of 10 to 29 years and residents of Territory I (Vila União, Terrenos Novos and Residencial Nova Caiçara neighborhoods). The analysis was a step towards achieving the research objective and aimed to list five most recurrent vulnerabilities (school dropout, limited territorial circulation, direct connection with organized crime, use of psychoactive substances and death threats) in the Cases to be taken into dialogue with a group of young people from the Vila União neighborhood. The intervention was mediated by the board game entitled Game of Trajectories and Vulnerabilities created by UPG-PV. The game was used as a provocative tool for discussion and discovery of assertive ways to prevent murders in young people. It was seen that when the State does not articulate public policies, it ends up offering scarcity to this public victim of homicide, the rearrangements that sectoral policies try to make daily to meet the needs of the population become insufficient with the new configurations of poor and vulnerable territories. The five vulnerabilities found showed that they cause structural consequences of inequalities in murder victims. The socio-historical research made it possible to make interpretations from the place where the researcher was inserted, during this writing process it was possible to present two more technical products: the elaboration of the analysis of the life trajectory carried out by CEMV, which emerged as a technical product of the research from the proposal of dissemination of knowledge and the unprecedented format of elaboration of a Case Study and how it can become a means for the development of methodologies that seek the reduction of homicides; and the methodology of construction and analysis of Case Studies for the construction of technical guidelines, which had the intention of producing practices in public policies carried out in a customized way and with the opportunity to access means that alter the life trajectory of young people by increasing the life perspective of this public.