"Guerra ao tráfico", violência policial e os limites da democracia brasileira

Construction and Validation of the Scale of Attitudes Towards Lynching

“…These are archaic practices, in contrast to modern times in which there are already justice systems that, despite their various limitations, assign the responsibility for resolving disputes to the State, thus avoiding the brutal character of popular justice. Despite its flaws, such as the numerous cases of police violence (Azevedo, 2017;Tommasi, 2014), the application of justice using the formal State mechanisms currently available is certainly still the system that best converges towards a project of a viable society. Therefore, it should be noted that the constant occurrences of lynching in Brazil, more than feeding the criminal statistics, require urgent reflection on the maintenance of the democratic rule of law, since such practices deny the right to an official trial, anticipating conviction (Alexandre et al, 2019).…”