Meninos e lobos: trajetórias de saída do tráfico na cidade do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The theme of this thesis is the individual's trajectories of people who worked in drug trafficking and weapons trade in the Metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro. I bring the discussion about the motivations that entailed the association of these individuals with the criminal activity and the effects that the passage through the penitentiary system caused to the constitution of their personal identities. The maisn objective is to examine the conditions that led to the abandonment of trafficking and detect the madiations that supported the attempted reintegration into formal legal world. I tried to analyse the activities of drug trafficking from the various interactions between participants, reconstructed through interviews with individuals who have exercised such activity. The social forms of connection between what is lawful and illegal is analyzed in this paper from the individual motivations in view of the structural forces that induce the production of a set of identities which do not take the individual as an empirical "locus" for a sociological analysis.