Tráfico de cocaína na cidade de Manaus: condições socioeconômicas e encarceramento

Abstract

The aim is to study the relationship between crime and socioeconomic variables of the agents jailed for cocaine trafficking in the city of Manaus. Variables were raised in interviews with defendants and consultation to criminal proceedings in the course of the hearings and trial conducted in the 3rd Specialized Court for Crimes of Use and Trafficking of Narcotics during the period between May 2012 and January 2013. The statistical test used is called the Fisher exact test non-parametric, allowing the realization of crosses between categorical variables at a confidence level of 95% and a 5% significance accordingly. The hypotheses were defined two: (a) the proportions of a subject to a level of the other variable are equal, i.e., there is no influence of one over the other; (b) the proportions of a subject to a variable level are different from each other, ie, there is an influence over the other. The work is descriptive in nature and methodology developed from the theoretical framework of Alessandro Baratta (2002) grounded in critical criminology are examined in which the paradigms of cocaine trafficking and imprisonment.