Organizações criminosas: surgimento, expansão e as formas de enfrentamento pelo estado brasileiro

Abstract

The increase in the power and structure of criminal organizations represents a major challenge for national public security. This paper therefore seeks to assess how criminal organizations have emerged and evolved, and how the Brazilian state has combated them. The work uses a bibliographical review to narrate the history of the formation of criminal organizations; examine the expansion, power and impacts caused by the main Brazilian criminal organizations; identify legislation on the subject, the role of public security and public policies aimed at repressing and preventing organized crime. Based on the data collected, it was found that the emergence and development of criminal organizations is mainly due to the inefficiency of the state in tackling social issues, allowing organized crime to take advantage of the situation of economic inequality to expand its forces. It was also possible to analyze that organized crime has managed to dominate various regions of the country where it plays the role of “parallel state”, causing various negative impacts on the economy and security. In addition, it was possible to identify that the Brazilian state's responses have evolved slowly and gradually, allowing for improvements in the fight against this type of crime, but these responses are still inefficient in the face of the constant advance of criminal organizations.