Percepção espacial da violência e do medo pelos moradores dos bairros Morumbí e Luizote de Freitas em Uberlândia/MG / Space perception of violence and fear of the residents of neighborhoods Morumbi and Luizote de Freitas in Uberlândia/MG

• Main Authors: Márcia Andréia Ferreira Santos, Dr. Julio Cesar de Lima Ramires
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editora da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia 2009-04-01
• Series: Revista Sociedade & Natureza
• Subjects: Perception; Fear. Murder; Violence; Drugs.
• Online Access: http://www.sociedadenatureza.ig.ufu.br/include/getdoc.php?id=1064&article=383&mode=pdf

The objective is to analyze the spatial perception that the residents of neighborhoods Luizote de Freitasand Morumbi have the violence and fear, and from interviews it was found that the homicide, drugtrafficking and theft are crimes that cause most fear the population. Furthermore, many residents saidthey fear traffic for street lighting which is inefficient, or that have a low number of people moving.Many residents said they feel the lack of performance of public security on site, this factor that leads to developing a greater anxiety in regard to violent crime in the neighborhood. It was found that in bothdistricts is a concern with respect to the empty spaces, as they have characteristics that facilitate theactivities of offenders. It was noticed also that for them, the lack of public safety, or the ostensible lackof police presence in the neighborhood helps the offenders on the spot. It is noteworthy that spatialperception is an individual phenomenon, which differs in intensity and mode of expression, but when acommunity maintains ties of solidarity with the place occupied by it, the feeling to it becomes a collectivefactor, because the value that gives the place becomes unambiguous. It is concluded that the residentsare the main subject to talk about the space in which live, because they live such spaces daily andtherefore are constituted as part of it alive.