A viagem em cárcere móvel: um estudo de vitimização por sequestro relâmpago. / The trip in mobile prison: a study of victimization by lightning kidnapping.

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

28/03/2011

RESUMO

Violence has only but recently gained ground as a Collective Health issue. Similarly, lightning kidnapping (sequestro relâmpago in Portuguese), a type of criminal violence that affects the Brazilian middle class since the mid-90s, still lacks studies that depict and recognize its impact on the physical, mental and social health of those involved. Our main objective is to understand the event and experience of lightning kidnapping based on reports of victimized individuals. Our goals are to: 1. describe the event and identify its different stages; 2. analyze the violence perpetrated and the meanings attributed by the victims; 3. understand the dimensions of interaction between victims and offenders; and 4. acknowledge repercussions of the experience of victimization in the daily lives of the former hostages. We developed an exploratory study with a qualitative method, in which we investigated the subjective experience of thirteen victims of lightning kidnapping through individual interviews. We describe the event in four stages. The first stage is prior to the arrest (pre-approach); second, comes the phase in which the roles of victim and offender are initiated (capture); then begins the longer phase during which offenders expose their intentions and oblige the victims to agree on a cooperative-coercive contract (the compulsory ride); and finally the event ends (closure), with this being one of the most tense moments for the victim. Generally, the lightning kidnapping may be identified as what is named by scholars as kidnapping for robbery. It is an offense that requires a common means of action the forced confinement and transportation of the victim and can follow distinct and complementary scripts (ATM withdrawals, purchases, stealing of personal property, vehicle theft). It is characterized by reduced temporality, the "movable prison" and the dyadic relationship between offender and victim. The threats and firearms, strengthened by a convincing act by the offenders, are common elements to all cases and are reported by the victims as key drivers of their cooperation. This reaction, in turn, is the most frequent type of victim response. They believe that by collaborating with the offenders commands, their lives will be preserved and, thus, they validate the cooperative-coercive contract imposed by the perpetrators. However, this contract can be continuously negotiated, since victim and offender keep a prolonged and constant face-to-face interaction and are within a shifting scenario due to situational factors. Consequently, the victims experience physical and emotional effects of victimization, such as immediate changes of routine, fear of retaliation, feelings of general insecurity, loss of social life, among others. The deterioration of the individuals social life and personal relationships and the recurring negative emotional reliving may have prolonged and damaging effect on the victims.

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violence violência sequestro relâmpago vitimização organização social lightning kidnapping kidnapping victimization social organization saude publica sequestro

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