THE MEDIA CRIMINOLOGY AS A DRUG WAR HERALD

Abstract

This article investigates the criminology produced by Brazilian newscasts, the so-called media criminology, focusing on discussions about drug trafficking, outlining the content and form of the discourse presented by the Brasil Urgente program, broadcast by Bandeirantes Television Network. The editions of the program were randomly chosen between September 2017 and January and March 2018, to encompass maximum variety. For the specific clipping were determined the matters related to alleged crimes of drug trafficking, article 33 of Law No. 11.343 of 2006. Thus, it was possible to perceive the formation of a context of “war”, from the construction of the figure of an enemy around the drug dealer, a sign that was built from the said and unsaid in the Brasil Urgente program, in order to violate fundamental guarantees, such as the presumption of innocence, spectacularizing the criminal.