Cultura do Medo e a Privatização da Segurança

Abstract

Fear in society has distorted the understanding of violence and violent agents and this has brought several consequences for the social environment. The culture of fear is defined here as the naturalization of this form of coexistence and the use of fear for manipulation and perpetuation of powers. Thus, it is imperative to point out that the community manipulated by a state starts to demand increasingly punitive and brutalized. Not accepting as quite the population starts to employ means to protect themselves from violence, using private spaces, private security, searching to defend itself through civil weaponry, what we verify through official statistics and information as harmful to society as a whole.