Risco, mercado criminal e interações violentas: Etnografia de um conjunto habitacional periférico numa cidade média do estado de São Paulo

Abstract

The present article aims to show the dilemmas lived by the inhabitants from a suburban gated community of a medium size city in the São Paulo state hinterland. The discussion is based on the stand point of recent expansion of the criminal market and its connections with the increasingly life risk over the young inhabitants of the community as such. By the way of an ethnographic approach, the study focuses on the violent interaction between young people that work for the illegal drug market and the police. The main concern here is not only to address the conflicts, lethal violence and the strategies of survival of the residents related to the informal and illegal market, but also to address the conflict resolutions patterns within the so called crime tribunal.