O jornalismo policial sensacionalista na TV brasileira: a perpetuação do paradigma etiológico da criminologia

Abstract

Starting from a critical analysis of the criminal reality, which acts in a selective and highly unfair way, the present work aims to understand the interaction between the etiological paradigm, in a Lombrosian perspective, and the discourse that prevails in the police programs. In this sense, with the purpose of deconstructing the reality fabricated by the police programs regarding the notions of crime and criminal, the dialectical method will be used, since it is based on the clash of ideas, intending to deconstruct false visions or conceptions that were previously considered unquestionable. In addition, as a way of understanding this interaction, it was necessary to divide the work into three chapters. In the first, an analysis is made of the change from the etiological paradigm to the social reaction paradigm, in order to achieve the effects of this change on the criminal reality. In the second, he delves into the theory and ideas of Cesare Lombroso, pointing out the success of his thought and the legacy left by him to contemporaneity. Finally, in the third chapter, we aim to understand how the perpetuation of the etiological paradigm occurs within the scope of police programs. In order to do so, it addresses the interactions between the media, social control and the penal system, fundamental for the construction of common sense about crime, in the construction of stereotypes of the criminal. In addition, it debates the true function of the police programs in the spectacularization of the crimes and the violence. The central objective of this work, therefore, is to point out how the discourses given in these programs contribute to the logic of domination and criminal selectivity.