Redes sociais de prevenção da violência: opacidade ou visibilidade nas inter-relações dos atores sociais e moradores de três bairros do município de Rio Grande

Abstract

The city of Rio Grande, through its managers developed since 2002, a networking violence prevention and care of children and adolescents. In 2007 the State Government of Rio Grande do Sul implements in Rio Grande, with support from UNESCO, the Violence Prevention Program - PPV, in the neighborhoods Castelo Branco I, Castelo Branco II and Santa Rita, which consisted to create networks for the prevention of violence with social actors. After some years of development, it was necessary to see if the actions of the network wereable to change the perception and experience of residents of those neighborhoods of Rio Grande on the violence. Through semi-structured interviews and following a methodology of analysis based on the works of authors Adrián Gurza Lavalle and Robert A. Hanneman, noted that violence and crime, introduced breaks arrangements in the daily life of residents of those neighborhoods studied leading to the emergence of new forms of sociability. We also observed that prevention networks analyzed are insufficient to change the perception of residents about the violence. The institutions that make up these networks have a low technical capacity for action and underrepresented among the residents. We also verified through interviews withsocial actors, they prefer to stay out of the debate on public policy. The relationships between the organizations of the network to prevent violence are mostly mandatory, ie when there is a legal determination or protocols to work together, as theGuardian Council and the Prosecutor, for example. The relationships are one-sided, when only one actor can identify each other as partners and are reciprocal,when social actors are able to identify each other