Para quem o progresso? Um estudo da violência em Chapecó a partir de inquéritos policiais (1960-1986)

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the phenomenon of crime manifested in police investigations of homicides and homicide attempts, usually practiced by the use of firearms, from 1960 to 1986. Through the research carried out at the Centro de Memória do Oeste Catarinense (CEOM), it is intended to unveil aspects of the daily life of the population of Chapecó in the decades covered, as well as the motivations for the practice of crimes. These documents are capable of revealing peculiarities about the social, cultural, political and economic context of the time. Chapecó, at that moment, lived intensely a desire for economic growth that was imbricated in speeches written in the newspaper Folha D'Oeste of the year 1970, an important medium of communication for the time, like the newspaper, made clear concepts about the necessity of progress. There was difficulty and delay on the part of the police in solving the crimes, and a certain support/connivance of the authorities as with the practices of the crimes, committed by men.