Gangs: the nationalization of organized crime in Fortaleza and some reflections on the war for territories

Abstract

This article aims to analyze how the violence practiced by organized crime is daily deepening urban spaces and territories. The consolidation of the nationalization of criminal factions has further sharpened the structural problems of the urban environment, coupled with the lack of social policies, and the violence practiced by poor young people in the peripheries has become the main problem in recent years, further weakening the few existing public safety policies. In its contextualization, this research analyzed the relationship between the consolidation of gangs in the peripheral neighborhoods of Fortaleza and the lack of public policies, as well as how this new mode of organized violence causes many people to change their habits, making the urban crisis even more complex to understand and making it difficult for government agents to reorganize it. The analysis to carry out this article is based on the historical knowledge of its origins and its formation, as well as analyzing its current conjuncture, its recruitment tactics, and its geographical positioning, where the dispute for new territories has raised violence to the extreme in poor neighborhoods. The research approach will be qualitative because there was an arduous attempt to understand and interpret the theme, assigning emphatic meaning to the data collected.