O DISCURSO DA CRIMINALIZAÇÃO DA JUVENTUDE NO JORNAL DAQUI

Abstract

This paper aims at examining how young people are meant by the print media of Goiás, with particular emphasis on the quality of coverage of Daqui jornal during february, march and april 2010. I chose this subject because, according Waiselfisz (2011), in recent years (2004/2008) there is a frightening increase in the number of youth homicides in Brazil. The research was done with Daqui because this is an important vehicle in Goiás, with the largest circulation of newspapers in the state. To analyze the utterances of Daqui, I work with Analysis Discourse French, since it allows the evaluation of historic buildings and ideological present in an discourse, considering not only the materiality of language but also its external (historical conditions, social and ideological). From the analysis done, I realized that the young poor urban peripheries are represented stigmatized by the rooting an imaginary in which the practice of extermination seems to be accepted and approved. The newspaper coverage gives great space for matters relating to crime and prejudice before the young offender or the drug user. Themes such as culture, sports, education, among others, are rarely addressed. The crystallization of this memory allows for such interpretations are taken as "truths", not allowing the reader other kinds of meaning, so that violence is regarded as something common and necessary to control youth. There is a growing population in the "belief" in this imagery, which turns out to be complacent about the situation of extermination of poor youth. The utterances produced by Daqui crystallizes an memory and an continuous acceptance of killings of poor youth, encouraging the criminality, the prejudice and the invisibility of them. Research Line: "Education, Society and Culture".