Market of (in) security in middle-size cities: logics and spatial strategies of private security companies in Ribeirão Preto/SP

• Grant number: 18/08780-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2018
• End date: February 29, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Maria Encarnação Beltrão Sposito
• Grantee: Luis Fernando Colombo
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In recent years, the sense of urban insecurity has grown in disarray with the actual records of crimes in middle-size cities in São Paulo's state (SPOSITO and GÓES, 2013). This fact has served as justification for the part of the population that has a certain purchasing power to acquire systems and devices of security / surveillance strengthening this already vigorous security market in these cities. It is in this regard to unravel the relations that are established between the spatial logics of private security companies, their spatial strategies and diffuse violence (MISSE, 2003) seems relevant to us. To account for this proposal, we will investigate, on the one hand, how private security companies act and articulate in Ribeirão Preto / SP, since we assume that we will identify relations between the capital scale of these companies, the type of product and service and the market segment they seek to exploit. On the other hand, in this research, we will also analyze how the networks generated by the consumption of private security are structured, trying to verify if, in this branch of economic activity, the city in question exercises centrality in the regional context in which it is inserted.