POLICE APPROACH AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CRIMINAL SUBJECT: an analysis of the public policy of drug repression in Porto Seguro/BA
Drug Law; Police approach; Selectivity; Criminal.
Studies on drug policy in Brazil often gain centrality in the field of Social Sciences by addressing, among other topics, the processes of selectivity and penal subjection.
Among other criticisms directed to the aforementioned public policy, there isthe criminal classification process in the police approach phase, often based on the concept of well-founded suspicion and social stigmas, reproducing stereotypes that influence the processes of distinction between drug dealers and users narcotics.
In this perspective, the present work has as its mains objective to infer if there is a sediment practice, at the time of the police approach, for the distinction and previous classification between thecrimes of trafficking and possession of drugs forown consumption in the city of Porto Seguro/Ba.
Through the bibliographic review and document analysis, referring to the arrest records in the act and detailed terms of occurrence drawn up between 2020 and 2022, the objective is to map the police actions, build a socioeconomic profile of the typified subjects and infer id there is a police selectivity in the treatment of drug repression in that municipality.