Riscos rebeldes : notas etnográficas e criminológicas sobre a pichação

Abstract

This work has major emphasis on the phenomenon of pichação as marginalized youth culture and despised by society in general. The main objective is the study of this phenomenon from own involved, taggers, drawing on ethnographic research method. From an analysis that focuses on contemporary criminological readings in cultural studies in criminology and deviance and criminality of cultural practices and everyday life, what this research suggests is an increasingly comprehensive view of the urban arts persecuted and criminalized by control and the mass media agencies. The study unfolds in four chapters, starting from a more general analysis about what is expected of a Criminology today, followed by a second chapter that specifically addresses the protagonists of the story and the phenomenon of pichação and graffiti. The third chapter will reflect directly on the criminalization of street arts and how social representations eventually condemn the practice of pichação, making it a crime and making the villains of taggers. At the end, the result of ethnographic research conducted in 2013 in Porto Alegre, are brought own impressions of the taggers on their actions and reports of direct contact with these young.