Notícias de violência e crime no Jornal Nacional: do medo do crime ao controle

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the speeches about violence and crime broadcasted on Jornal Nacional news program on Rede Globo de Televisão , in order to interpret the possible oration strategies related to the processes of health and disease. Its specific objectives were: carry out a quantitative study concerning to the news on violence and crime shown on JN news television program; analyze the conditions of producing news about violence and crime trying to know the plausible senses produced in the groups of statements present in their discourses and identify the distinct typologies that characterize the words in the body of analysis. The following crimes were focused: homicides, body injuries, extortion, torture, theft or robbery. As its theoretical and methodological basis, we searched for support on Critical Social Psychology and on French Speech Analysis, considering that both of them propose to perceive the human being as a social and historical product and as an active factor in constructing and transforming the society. The results indicate that, from the 49 recorded editions, 29 ones present news on violence and crime, adding up to 59.18% of all the recorded editions. The information broadcasted about the violence and crime problems are, especially, theft, robbery and homicides. Through a qualitative analysis, it is noticed that JN does not establish relations with health and disease processes. Moreover, it is verified that the discourse functioning tends to be authoritarian, that means, it is predominantly found the relapse of paraphrase in the news subjected to analysis. Therefore, when the dominance of paraphrase is found, the repetition of senses is seen and not the opposite, the disruption with the established senses.