DROGAS, DISCURSOS E MÍDIA: Um diálogo sobre o (des) encontro de representações em processos judiciais

Abstract

The politic about (or anti) drugs adopted by Brazil is based on a discourse of intolerance, exclusion and unidimensionality, responsible for the creation of human stereotypes about the measures which fall standardization and control. This politic, present in Brazil since 1921, is in the drug laws adopted at the international level, through treaties and conventions. The discourse of these laws resonance in the media, which through mechanisms of persuasion, connected to create a genuine atmosphere of war against drugs and the drug dealer, confer legitimacy to the public discourse. The association's official discourse to the discourse mediatic causes sedimentation of criminal stereotype, which is identified as an enemy to be destroyed. Moreover, this association discursive, through procedures of exclusion and limitation of discourse does not allow the emergence of contrary or refractory discourses. Holders of marginal discourse are therefore eliminated the voice, because there is a stereotype about them created. One of the most important tools that are worth the state to implement the public discourse is the process. In the course of proceedings, there is the encounter of the individual with the stereotype that it was created by the official politic and reaffirmed by the media. Has the meeting of representations about the trafficking. Despite that meeting, the marginal discourse, even in cases of criminal absolution, does not appear, because the influence of the same mechanisms of exclusion and limitation of discourse, specially, the disqualification discursive of the person involved in judicial proceedings, always collected from lower layers society. It has been the mismatch of representations on trafficking. Results of research that criminal politic about drugs, both in Brazil and at the international level, was built on a discourse given efficient mechanisms for maintenance. Even when that discourse do not concreted, with the criminal condemnation of someone accused of illegal trafficking of drugs, there is no cracks in its structure. The person involved with judicial proceedings does not invalidate the predominant discourse. He simply got the "detachment" of his image to the stereotyped image of the smuggler, contributing, at the final, with the strengthening of that stereotype. Thus, if in principle the criminal acquittal may mean the collapse of public discourse, it is shown that, far from it happening, the criminal acquittal is the reaffirmation of this discourse.