Homicídio por arma de fogo - taxa de mortalidade de jovens no município de Cabedelo-PB

Abstract

This study has as its main theme youth violence, particularly firearms homicide rates in the youth population aged 15 to 29 years. The general objective of the research is to present and analyze the HAF indices of young people from the municipality of Cabedelo. For this, data from the Mortality Information System of the MS were used to obtain the number of victims of HAF and the calculation of the homicide rate per 100 thousand inhabitants. With the collection of data, it was possible to obtain, besides the number of victims of HAF, the number of victims by sex, color and age categories. Thus, it was possible to compare the numbers of victims aged 15 to 29 with the entire population, in addition to color, age and sex profiles. In the years 2009 to 2014, the municipality recorded 230 deaths from firearms, of which 60% of the victims were young people aged 15-29; 86.52% of the victims of brown color and 94.34% were individuals were males. Although the municipality of Cabedelo showed a sharp decrease in homicide rates, the municipality still maintained a rate of 60.5% in the age group of 15 to 29 years, above the national average of 51.44%. Being a case to be better in depth in qualitative research to identify the reasons for such reductions in said municipality.