Análise de um contexto local e a incidência da criminalidade: crimes de homicídio no município de Toledo (PR)

Abstract

The objective of the present study is the analysis of the local context of the city of Toledo (PR) to understand the relation between the socioeconomic indices and the incidence of crime, specifically the homicide. The historical genesis in the increasing indices of the economy in the socioeconomic development, during the last decades, demonstrates a conflict perspective. Some conditional factors, as the instability and socioeconomic inequalities, concur directly or indirectly with the social fragmentation, generally carried out by the indices of crime and violence. In this research, data from the criminal proceedings of the First Criminal Court of the Judicial District of Toledo and from relative socioeconomic data of the city of Toledo (PR), proclaimed by the government department, were analyzed. It is considered the hypothesis that the index of the homicide in the city of Toledo (PR) is related with low socioeconomic indices. The belief that a direct causal relation between poverty and crime exists was not confirmed in this work. The factorial analysis of the socioeconomic variable did not identify any association with the homicide in the city of Toledo (PR) and socioeconomic indices in particular. Therefore, it was evidenced, in this research, the no existence of a relation between the socioeconomic configuration and the indices of homicide in the city of Toledo (PR).