A caça às bruxas de Guaratuba: os desdobramentos da lógica inquisitorial midiática junto ao tribunal do júri no “caso Evandro”

Abstract

The present work has as an implication the symbiotic relationship between media and justice with a focus on crimes of great repercussion in Brazil. With lengthy and abundant coverage, the murder of the boy Evandro Ramos Caetano, in the city of Guaratuba, on the coast of Paraná, it's used as a background to analyze the construction of the narrative of a moral accusation by the media and its reflections in the procedural developments and in the decision uttered by the institution of Jury trial. In this way, we seek, through deductive methodology, to verify the effects of criminal populism carried out by the media in condemnatory judicial decisions, especially with regard to the misogynistic image created for the accused in the case, fostered by the patriarchal construction of the Brazilian society and the punitive bias of the State.