Conflito e controle na cidade de Porto Alegre/RS: produção do espaço a partir das práticas e discursos policiais

Abstract

This work aims to propose, with others that already exist, a new study agenda for critical-based criminology, contrasting the positivist analyzes of urban space with a historically founded interpretation of Brazilian cities and their respective violence processes, characteristic of capitalist accumulation. The first chapter suggests the abandonment of the Chicago School as an interpretive key and, in its place, offers a conception of the city as a social product, where the penal system functions as one of the instruments for its material and symbolic production. Focusing on Porto Alegre at the end of the 19th century, the second chapter addresses the rise of positivism and the development of dangerous classes’ concept in social history to justify the segregation and control of black and poor population, which accompanies, in its forced movement outside the city center, the punitive institutions. In the third chapter, the data obtained in the empirical research are presented, analyzing police narratives and its judicial legitimation criminalizing urban space and producing, in today’s Porto Alegre (2010-2020), cursed places