How a cell is born - Study on the emergence of the First Capital Command (PCC) in Brasília
Social representations, First Command of the Capital, PCC, Commands.
The object of study is the performance of the cell in the Federal District of the
criminal group Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) in 2014, the year of its emergence, from the
perspective of the members themselves, based on the research problem on how the PCC attracts new
members and what they think about the faction. I intend to delve deeper into the analysis of social
representations about the PCC shared by its members and, at the same time, move the discussion about
what the PCC is from its central place – state of São Paulo – to the Federal District, helping in the
search for an answer to the field question “what is the PCC?”. The contribution of my research will
therefore be made by the insertion of two new perspectives: the place (Federal District) and the subjects
who interpret the PCC (the members of the faction themselves).