Entre margens e entrelinhas: uma análise do discurso midiático sobre a criminalização do tráfico de drogas em Salvador- Ba e região metropolitana

Abstract

This research is part of a Critical Analysis of Discourse and Critical Criminology, within a perspective of Marginal Realism (ZAFFARONI, 2001) and racialized Critical Criminoly, in the molds pointed out by Ana Flauzina (2006). We used the linguistic analysis category called Evaluation. The goal is to investigate the media discourse on the criminalization of drug trafficking in Salvador and the metropolitan region, focusing on the role of the police, from the social representations of drug dealers in the bahian newspaper Correio, considering it’s online news portal, and in police investigation documents, such as the policeman statement, the defendant testimony and the police investigation report. The aim is to bring up the discursively created representations of the “low” social class drug trafficker and the “middle/high” social class drug trufficker, describe them and, later on, compare them. In order to do so, I used the following theoretical models: Fairclough (2003), Van Dijk (2012), Foucault (2002), Gramsci (1999), Moscovici (2012), Wodak (2004), Zaffaroni (2001), Ana Flauzina (2006) and Marcus Gomes (2015). The monograph ends by making sure that both, media and police investigation, operated through discourse, using racist ideology, therefore segregationist, privileging the upper social class over popular groups and contributing to the criminalization of poverty. The analysis of news and police documents affirm an acting model based on racism. They both act together in order to produce social inequality.