A Espacialização da Violência na Microrregião do Bico do Papagaio-TO

Abstract

The violence that affects all municipalities in the country to a greater or lesser extent is an important social phenomenon that affects the lives of the population in general; in the Microregion of Bico do Papagaio-TO, it is no different. With the emergence of the COVID- 19 pandemic and, consequently, stay-at-home directives announced, when researching the data available, we observed a drop in violence rates in this micro-region. This study aimed to analyze the spatialization of violence in the 25 municipalities of Bico do Papagaio-TO, 14 types/crimes analyzed, which are: threat, slander, defamation, fraud, rape, theft, manslaughter, reckless homicide, injury, culpable bodily harm, intentional bodily injury, disturbing work or the peace of others, theft and drug trafficking or use. The research is descriptive, use the technical procedure, it is documentary research with a quantitative approach. The method of quantitative data analysis on violence used, having as its source the police reports registered at the Civil Police stations of the State of Tocantins, as well as those recorded at the Virtual Police Station and which, despite being done electronically, are attributed to the location of the occurrence in the referred micro-region, data that were made available by the Public Security Secretariat of the State of Tocantins through the Data Analysis and Statistics Center. From this material, the spatial profile of the incidence of crimes and the most vulnerable groups made up of, considering race/color, gender and age of the victims. Used crime rates per 100 thousand inhabitants, and the time frame covers January 2019 to July 2021. Analyze groups consisting of the highest number of victims, based on variables such as gender, color and age of the victims, as well as the reason why these groups become the mayor victims of these types of crimes. According to the quantitative sample, it is possible to state that, in relation to the race/color of the victims, people who declared themselves black/brown race/color constitute the majority of victims in all crimes analyzed. However, when it comes to the gender of the victims, the crimes of threat, defamation, rape, insult, intentional bodily injury and disturbing the peace, victims of the female sex/gender and black and brown color/race represent the most vulnerable groups; It is possible that there are several notifications from the same victim. In the crimes of slander, embezzlement, theft, intentional homicide, manslaughter and culpable bodily injury, victims of male sex/gender and black and brown color/race represent the most vulnerable groups. Regarding the age of the victims, the group between 16 and 48 years old represents the highest percentage; however, it is necessary to note that there are variations in age groups depending on the crime analyzed.