A violência desnuda: justiça penal e pistolagem no Pará

Abstract

This thesis examines the violent practice of gunmen system in Pará and discusses the selectivity of criminal justice of Para in the face of such conflicts that always culminate with the physical elimination of the victims or result in life on hold the „sworn to die‟, people involved with the land question in Para (pastoral agents, wives and children of rural leaders killed, among others) and they suffer constant death threats by farmers, landowners, loggers and gunmen. It develops from „two major work areas‟: the first throws light on the violence built into the gunmen, then to understand how social relations between gunmen, principals, intermediaries and bring to life the victims of the crimes of command and the latter, in turn, is to discuss the selectivity of the agencies of power involved in the criminalization of the weaker social stratus on one side, and immunization of the criminal actions of the most powerful segments of society on the other. This second front work seeks to explain the impunity in the murders under orders sought by the criminal Para, understood as a set of agencies of power, such as the Civil Police, Prosecutors and the Judiciary.