Caracterização das sentenças condenatórias do crime de tráficos de drogas em Belém, Pará, Brasil

The article aims to analyze the role of police agencies in criminalizing drug trafficking in the city of Belem-PA. The study is important in that it investigates the importance of police agencies in the secondary criminalization of drug trafficking. For that, a content analysis of the data extracted from the convictions of the crime of drug trafficking, of the Criminal Court of Belem, was carried out in 2017. Critical criminology was used as a theoretical reference, through which the theory of the labeling was studied in order to understand how the selection of the people criminalized by the crime of drug trafficking occurs. The results show particularities that indicate elements that characterize the crime of drug trafficking and point out as predominant circumstances the use of police testimony to substantiate the conviction. In addition, those accused of drug trafficking are, in most cases, arrested in flagrante delicto, because they are in a suspicious attitude or because of anonymous denunciation, which shows the lack of previous police investigation. Keywords: Police testimony. Anonymous report. Suspicious attitude. Cocaine.