Abstract:
The increasing homicide of young people is a worrying reality in the Brazilian sociopolitical scenario. The elevation of the indexes, from the end of the 1970s to the present day, points to the continuity of authoritarian machinery and the fragility of its processes of democratic consolidation. The objective of this article is to problematize juvenile homicides as analyzers of the challenges to Brazilian democracy and the ethical-political implications of Psychology in the struggles for democratization. Such a discussion will be established from Social Psychology interlocutions with studies by Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari and Agamben. In the first part of the text, it will be discussed how the issue of youth homicide is related to the intensification of fascist ways of living within the so-called “democratic” formations. Subsequently, the social and media repercussion of the slaughter considered as the largest in the history of Ceará will be taken as an analyzing event of how juvenile criminalization devices and the production of “killable subjects” operate in the daily life of our great urban centers, understanding that the panorama of violence in the city of Fortaleza is a kaleidoscope of what has been happening in the national scenario. Finally, the article points out possibilities about the ethical-political implication of Psychology in the struggle for democratization, through the presentation of research and extension paths developed by the Research and Intervention Group on Violence and Production of Subjectivities (Vieses-UFC).
Keywords:
Homicide; Young; Democracy; Psychology