O crescimento urbano desordenado da cidade de São Paulo, seus fatores determinantes da insegurança pública e a conexão com os crimes ambientais

Abstract

This study is related to the problem of public (in)security in the context of cities and the fact that they are closely related to urban growth without planning. The historical context of Brazil reveals that cities in this country, and especially large cities, received workers from rural areas, so that they could contribute to economic growth, especially after specific crops had developed there. At the beginning of the 20th century, these workers began to settle in the surrounding areas, without any support from the government. It is true that, at the time, there was already an organization of living areas regarding to wealthier classes, in more affluent urban spaces. On the other hand, the needy population began to gather in peripheral regions, geographically distant from the productive area and in environmentally fragile areas. This distance highlighted the lack of infrastructure with precarious housing and without adequate infrastructure. This favored not only municipal disorder but also the dominance of parallel forms of power, such as criminal militias that proved to be the “ordermakers” of the region. This paper demonstrates that these facts, combined with population growth, have materialized factual hypotheses capable of observing the subsumption in criminal norms set forth in Law No 6.766/1979. The guiding question refers to the fact that criminal law is adequate to interfere in the urban process in order to prevent the perpetration of certain crimes and better establish order in cities or if there are other ways, in a way that does not involve criminal law to reestablish order. Thus, through the hypothetical-deductive method, we will seek to answer the question and confirm or not the established hypothesis. The methodology will be bibliographical and documentary.