Entre o “inimigo”, o “justiceiro”, “o herói” e o “cidadão de bem”: o crime- espetáculo e as representações criminais na tela da TV (2010-2019)

Abstract

This essay has analyzed how the violence media coverage, used by television programming as an instrument, reaches the process of exploiting criminal representations, transforming the phenomenon of criminality into a media spectacle. The objective has been the comprehension of the set of meanings operated by the narrative configurations of television products, which brings the violence as to reality on the TV screen and projecting the impressions that society makes about individuals involved in this context and their position they occupy in the criminality dynamics. As a cultural product capable of developing meanings and giving meaning to social representations, the research problem includes the reach of TV in the dissemination and ratification of these representations and questions how, through the articulation of the media show, social actors are positioned through criminal representations in order to reach the categories of hero, vigilante, villain and victim. The research is justified by the interest in analyzing aspects of legal-criminal dogmatics from the perspective of interdisciplinarity, through the understanding that the mediatization of violence reflects perspectives that are linked to speeches and perceptions of the Law. The research object was the media production made by criminal reality programs with a focus on police daily life. The source of the research was the Operação de Risco (2010-2019) and Polícia 24 horas (2010 2019), attractions of the police genre, that we understand, as representative of the aesthetics of documentary reality and informative entertainment.Selected by thematic and sampling criteria, the documentation analyzed brings as theoretical and methodological perspective the bases of the New Cultural History and the Present Time History, focusing on the relationship of History with other areas of knowledge through the Theory of Social Representations and aspects of social communication and the Law. In this sense, resulting in an analysis of how violence reaches symbolic aspects against crime, the research demonstrate how the programs emphasize the social representation of the public security officers work and, also through the meanings found in the speeches throughout the police narrative and are connected with criminological speeches. Therefore it’s possible to realize how the media represents the facts and subjects placed in the universe of criminality it has shown the social practices that reveal the way in which the messages in the programs are owned by the viewers and which uses and interpretations are mobilized in the reception process, allowing the mediatization of criminality to have meaning and to provide meanings to speeches about violence.