Structural racism and racial filtering on the police approach to teenagers accused of offenses at the city of Campinas/São Paulo

Abstract

Inserted on the study field of race and criminal justice, the goal of this article is to understand the mechanisms of racial biased violent approaches and apprehensions committed by police officers against teenagers accused of offenses in Campinas, state of São Paulo. Based on an analysis that goes through the historical perception about racism and criminal justice system and thereby, crosses the notion of youth with the concepts of race, penalty, racial classification, police records and inequalities, the types and means of violence will be articulated to the ideas of racial filtering and structural racism. This analysis will be made through the exposition of a database with racial, gender, scholarity and sociospatial variants of the actors involved on the approaches, the means and types of violence assigned to the police officers and the offenses assigned to the teenagers. This research was made based on the datas collected with the administratives procedures established by the State of São Paulo Public Ministry opened against police officers with accusation of abuse of force