FROM THE DOCUMENTARY JUDGMENT TO THE FILM CITY OF GOD: LONE WOLVES RECRUITED BY CRIME

Abstract

This article analyzes, from a sociological and legal perspective, the mechanisms of youth recruitment into crime, drawing a parallel between the reality documented in Juízo and the emblematic fiction of Cidade de Deus. Using Durkheim's concepts of the externality of social facts, Miguel Reale's three-dimensionality of Law, and Mbembe's necropolitics, it argues that the Brazilian social structure creates an environment that naturalizes the insertion of young people, predominantly Black and from marginalized backgrounds, into organized crime. The analysis also addresses the difficulty of social mobility, illustrated by data on digital exclusion and violence, which corroborate the thesis of a political project of exclusion.