Política de drogas: uma análise crítica acerca do discurso do combate às drogas na gestão criminal da pobreza

Abstract

Currently, the neoliberal postulates in Brazil are becoming more and more aggressive and there is a growing need for control in the face of increased social insecurity. In this context, the number of people arrested and murdered annually in Brazil is abyssal; however, some statistical information stands out in this scenario, such as: age, sex, color, criminal type, and social class of criminalized subjects. Young black men, living in the peripheries and stigmatized as 'involved with drugs' represent the majority of prisoners and homicide victims. Faced with this scenario, the main focus of the research is to critically analyze the relationship between the current stage of neoliberal capitalism and the prohibitionist drug policy in legitimizing the postulates of necropolitics - which in synthesis guarantees control through criminalization. Starting from a theoretical framework of Critical Criminology, it is necessary to analyze data/elements of reality in order to understand and problematize how legitimization occurs, in which certain subjects can be arrested or killed without generating any social commotion. From this perspective, the objective of the dissertation is to problematize drug policy in the face of the secular process of criminalization of blacks and the popular classes. Thus, demonstrating that drug policy is a necessary and effective instrument in the management of neoliberal poverty.