Drogas ilícitas : reflexo sobre os homicídios em Cuiabá

Abstract

This is an analysis about illicit drugs and its relationship with crime, focusing on the crime of murder, second Surveys Police and Police Station police reports of Homicides and Protection of Person of Cuiabá-MT, referring to homicides of 2010 to 2012. We used simple frequency analysis and association with the use of chi-square test. Of the 584 recorded surveys was conducted drug testing in 285, of which 217 were positive for some numbing the body, and the highest proportion for cocaine (36.5%). A higher proportion of homicides among males, no significant association (94% p> 0.05), in relation to the female sex, race / mulatto (59.6%, p> 0.05) aged 24-40 years, with a significant association (84.4%, p <0.002), single (78.3%, p <0.012), with low education (67.9%, p <0.001)., and motivated murder debt for drugs. It was also observed that the prevalence of homicides associated with drugs in the body was in neighborhoods located on the periphery, occurred on weekends, late at night. The high proportion of cases excluded for having conducted drug testing suggests the need for actions that are the same take effect to better understand the profile of the victims in order to help with the public policies of prevention.