A intervenção policial na cracolândia e a concepção integrada de justiça de Nancy Fraser

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the public policy employed by the State and the city of São Paulo at the so called Cracolândia region. This work concerns the policial intervention backed up by the “pain and suffering” strategy, that intends to suppress the drug trafficking at the region and to foment the abstinence of the chemically dependent in hopes of, in doing so, these persons may seek help. The critical look given to this public policy endorsed by the integrated justice theory proposed by Nancy Fraser; therefore an examination of her work was made. Initially, Fraser presents the two-dimensional thesis, in which she demonstrates that the challenges of contemporaneity no longer bear a truncated conception of justice, and the problems of injustices must be remedied answering both claims to economic policies and to cultural or status policies. This necessity of integrating both demands for justice becomes clearer when one glimpses bivalent collectives, so very common to the contemporary world e essential characteristic of the Cracolândia community. In this way, to conceive this collectivity as a bivalent social category is this research's key point and, through this perception, one concludes that the previously mentioned policy is not capable of treating the chemically dependent as a peer in social interaction and neither can it facilitate that he reaches social esteem. Therefore, the police intervention at Cracolândia backed up by the “pain and sufferiment” strategy is not capable of carrying out justice to the region's chemically dependent when one conceives the integrated theory of justice. Keywords: police intervention; Cracolândia; “pain and suffering” strategy; integrated conception of justice; two-dimensional thesis; bivalent collectivity/bivalent social category.