Homicides in the mesoregion of the legal amazon 1964-2007

This work presents the occurrence of homicides in the mesoregion of the Legal Amazon, precisely in the southeast of Pará in the period 1960-2007. It is a bibliographic search and a quantitative approach (statistical data). 644 (six hundred and forty-four) death records were found in the period: 04 (1964), 27 (1970), 383 (1980), 129 (1990) and 101 (2000-2007) and the numbers and rate of homicides for decades, Municipalities, inquiries, arrests for open inquiries, recurring for decades. It was concluded that the decade with the highest incidence of homicides was 1980, with a 56.74% rate of deaths. In relation to the municipalities, the cities of Marabá and Xinguará (17%) were those with the highest incidence. Of the 644 homicides that occurred, 574 did not obtain formalized inquiries (89%) and of the 70 completed inquiries, 75% were not arrested, only 24%. It should be noted that 76,2% of the crimes were committed by the same people (1980s-1990s). From the results obtained, a profile of the occurrence of homicides in the mesoregion in the period from 1964-2007 was generated, in addition to subsidies to compose a general diagnosis about the phenomenon in Pará's southeast of the Legal Amazon.