Abstract
On the Moral Grammar of Crime: The Mobilization of Justifications and Accusations in Homicides in Belo Horizonte East Side aims to examine the discourses and symbolic elements mobilized by actors participating in the “world of crime” to justify or condemn assassinations in poor neighborhoods of the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. The research, based on the analysis of police inquiries and interviews, focused on investigating how these actors articulate elements of a moral grammar as a way of justifying the legitimacy of murders or denouncing a death as unjust, which is an offence to be repaired through violent retaliation.
Keywords
homicide; war; morality; retaliation; Belo Horizonte