Os impactos sócio-espaciais das políticas públicas de segurança na Região Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro: algumas considerações sobre os índices de violência no Município de São Gonçalo (2007/2017)

Abstract

The ideologization of public security is increasingly being placed at the center of the debates of contemporary urban problems in the conflict of urban violence. In order to contribute to this theme within Geography, we will initially focus on the analysis of the concepts of public policies; public order and public safety, regarding their definitions and conceptual articulations to understand the nature of the topic discussed and facilitate the understanding of the institutional transformations of the public security model between the governments of the State of Rio de Janeiro and its different strategies between the years of 1983 to 2016. In this way, we will analyze the new spatial (re) arrangements of the State and criminal organizations in the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro and its territorial processes starting from the performance of the UPPs (2007/2017), initiating a conceptual approach on scale, territory, territorialization; and their effects on the new spatial (re) arrangements: with the metropolization of criminality with the territorialisation of UPPs; the increasing fragmentation of the socio-political fabric with the growth of militias; the return of removal policies a militia intensification mechanism in the Program My Home, My Life. These analyzes have been put in place as necessary to assign a more accurate view of the general panorama of public security policies in the last decades in the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro, at scale level, but exclusively with the purpose of analyzing, and specifically the indexes of violence and what we will call strengthening of the "aesthetics of power" in the Municipality of São Gonçalo due to the implementation of the UPPs.