Homicide dynamics in the city of Belém-Pará-Brazil
International Journal of Development Research
Homicide dynamics in the city of Belém-Pará-Brazil
Received 20th March, 2020; Received in revised form 09th April, 2020; Accepted 17th May, 2020; Published online 25th June, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Pedro Gleucianio Farias Moreira et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The issue regarding violence and crime has ceased to be a debate conducted only by public security agencies, being discussed now in academia. In 2016, the Belém-Pará city presented a rate of 77 homicides per 100 thousand inhabitants, and emerges as one of the most violent capitals of Brazil. This study seeks to investigate the dynamics of homicides in Belém and present the profile of the occurrences. The research has a quantitative approach, from secondary data of the homicide crime, in the period from 2017 to 2018. The statistical technique of descriptive analysis was used. Most homicides were found to occur on weekends, at night, and in neighborhoods with large numbers of households in subnormal clusters, that is, where there are problems related to urbanization. The results point to the need for investments in public policies, involving integrated actions directed to the control of criminality.
