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This study analyses theoretically and empirically the pretension of legitimacy of the criminal group selftitled “Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC)” in peripheral districts of the city of Sao Paulo, places where the group is rooted. Legitimacy here is understood as a dynamic process that takes place within power relations that involves on the one hand the self-justification of PCC in the exercise of their practices, especially in the context of regulation of conduct and conflict resolution and on the other hand, the possibility of their recognition by residents and professionals in these locations. Regarding the operationalization of this regulation and arbitration of conflicts, the study focuses mainly the pretension of the "right to kill" claimed by the PCC through “debates” or “criminal courts” in order to show that the use of physical force is one of the sustaining pillars of this power. Broadly, this issue lays on the state limitation in promoting legitimate monopoly on the use of physical force in Brazilian society whether due to its incompleteness in promoting public safety or on its historically arbitrary and abusive action. It consists in a qualitative study that tries to highlight the multiplicity of effects produced by the presence of criminal groups (in the normativity of PCC) in these locations and the possibilities of recognition by residents and professionals on the practices of these groups. Taking into account the ambiguities that pervade the relations between the PCC, the state security forces, the residents and the professionals of these locations, it is argued that if it is not possible to say that the PCC is a legitimate instance to the population, it is possible to say that there are different degrees of recognition constantly formed by these relationships, which can damage but not tear down the state legitimacy as an expectation always updated. In this perspective, for analytical purposes we delimit three possibilities, understood in their interconnections: “no recognition”, linked to the fear and duress situations produced by the practices of this instance of power; “situational recognition” made in the gaps and limitations of state action; and “situation of recognition”, in which we can see a greater consonance between the views of the population and the practices of "doing justice" of the PCC. Regarding this last aspect, we should highlight the selectivity in the use of physical force within the PCC punishment mechanisms, since this use is an important aspect of the weightings of the possibility of recognition of this power instance. Possibility that appears, next to extra-legal state violence practices (but which also have the pretension of legitimacy), as a limit to the establishment of a democratic Rule of Law in the country.

Pretensão de legitimidade do PCC: justificação e reconhecimento de suas práticas nas periferias da cidade de São Paulo