Crimes contra turistas na cidade de Ilhéus

Abstract

The city of Ilhéus, in the state of Bahia, Brazil, has an undeniable tourist vocation, not only for its natural beauty, but also for its projection due to the works of several writers, in particular the works of Jorge Amado and Adonias Filho, who, using the cocoa culture as a backdrop, wove charming stories of the local culture. This research aimed to show the profile of crimes against tourists recorded at the Ilhéus Tourist Protection Police Station, in the period from 2016 to 2018. From documentary research, a quantitative and qualitative study was developed. Through the statistical technique of exploratory analysis, a quantitative approach was carried out in a study on violence against tourists in the city of Ilhéus, based on data from police occurrences recorded in the city of Ilhéus, involving tourists victims of criminal actions. The qualitative approach was used to characterize police reports registered by tourists who were victims of crimes in Ilhéus. The results revealed a predominance of patrimonial violence, specifically with higher incidences of theft and robbery among the crimes that affected tourists in Ilhéus, not being reached by the homicide rates, significant in the municipality in 2017, when an estimated homicide rate of 78.6 per 100,000 inhabitants was indicated. It was also verified that the most frequent target was the tourist transiting, moving on public roads, and the period of highest incidence of records was in the months of December to March. The conclusions of this research allow us to affirm the importance of studying the criminality that affects tourists in Ilhéus, as a tourist destination, for better repression. This is a concrete social problem and the intensification of preventive measures by the police, identifying the places and types of crimes, is imperative for an effective confrontation.