Juventude, violência e território: um estudo de caso sobre mortes violentas de jovens a partir da cidade de Campos dos Goytacazes-RJ

Abstract

We consider in this work that violence affects young people, blacks, poor and peripheral people in greater incidence and that their housing territories are strategic in social control, in the force and violence produced by criminal factions and the Public Security Policy, which tends to consider the lives of these subjects in a perspective of disposability within a society in crisis. By considering that youth should be analyzed from their territory, this work considers that the territory is the concrete space that actualizes and realizes social relations, expressions of the social issue, and violence. In this way, we seek to analyze the relationship between youth, violence and territory from the city of Campos dos Goytacazes - located in the interior of Rio de Janeiro, based on data from the Instituto de Segurança Pública - ISP and documents produced by the City Hall. : Municipal Social Assistance Plan - 2022 - 2025; and Study series - violence in Campos dos Goytacazes: homicide of adolescents and young people; Bearing in mind that urban violence is not a factor that affects only large cities, but a phenomenon that has also grown in the countryside and in small and medium-sized cities. Therefore, this work seeks to make a case study of violent deaths (understanding that death is the lethal expression of violence) of young people in the city of Campos dos Goytacazes - RJ and their territories of occurrence, analyzing the social assistance network and the protection services social resources available in such territories.