GEOGRAPHY OF CRIME: BOA VISTA (RR) AND THE CASE STUDY OF VILA JARDIM HOUSING COMPLEX (2015-2023)
Boa Vista (RR); ; Criminal Organization; Geography; Organized Crime; Vila Jardim Housing Complex.
The geography of crime in the municipality of Boa Vista (RR) has been analyzed in this research focusing on the socio-spatial diffusion of Criminal Organizations in the urban territory and on the case study of the Vila Jardim housing complex, located in the neighborhood of Cidade Satélite since 2015 up to 2023. The problem that the study intends to answer is based on the following question: how are the activities of Criminal Organizations characterized in Boa Vista and the Vila Jardim Housing Complex? The general objective of this dissertation is to analyze the organized crime and its territoriality in Boa Vista/RR, as well as to characterize the actions of the criminal organization Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) in the vertical condominiums of Vila Jardim housing complex. The methodological approach of the research is based on the use of the deductive method, characterized by an exploratory ad descriptive agenda regarding to the ends and a qualitative-quantitative approach regarding to the means. On the one hand, the data collection procedures started with an integrative review, a bibliographic and documentary review and a case study with fieldwork. On the other hand, data analysis procedures were based on the use of geographic and legal hermeneutics, graphic, schematic, iconographic and geospatial analysis. The results captured in the research demonstrate that the urban geography of organized crime in Boa Vista has an institutional evolution from the first groups of young offenders (galeras) until reaching maturation within the prison system through national criminal organizations, Primeiro Comando da Capital ( PCC) and Comando Vermelho (CV) and the membership of Venezuelan groups, Tren de Aragua and Tren Guayana. In territorial expansion process, the PCC leaders took advantage of a window of opportunities generated by the gentrification of a marginalized region dominated by drug trafficking in the central-south zone, known as Beiral, which led to its displacement to the West Zone of the municipality, especially for Vila Jardim housing complex, which has become PCC´s general headquarters and drug trafficking distribution center. It is concluded based on the results presented that the public authorities have generated vectors for the socio-spatial adaptation of organized crime in the urban territory of Boa Vista.