Public Security Policy in Contemporary Brazil: between Citizen Security and Authoritarian Continuity.
Name: VALBER RICARDO DOS SANTOS
Publication date: 06/08/2012
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| MARCIA SMARZARO SIQUEIRA | Internal Examiner * |
| MARGARETH VETIS ZAGANELLI | External Examiner * |
Summary: The study object of this research is the Brazilian public security policy aimed at
understanding their ideological and political journey in the context of recovery and consolidation of democracy in Brazil after 21 years of military dictatorship.
Considering the context in which it verifies the existence of political dispute around the concept of public security, the general objective of this work is to understand the structural array of public security policy in contemporary Brazil. Your order is intended to answer the initial and conductive question of interest that structures this work, presented here as follows: policy of public security in Brazil after the restoration of direct elections for the presidency is in transition, tending to assume democratic character or strength of the authoritarian tradition in Brazilian political culture has ensured continuity in the field of intervention state? We anchor our thinking in theoretical categories of domination, coercion and consent in classical thought of Hobbes, Marx, Weber and Gramsci, extracting them the elements that assist us in understanding the Brazilian public security policy. To study this policy was fundamental operate a deep literature review, especially to understand how the maintenance of order was being drawn in the Brazilian context and historically has prevailed as a model of public security marked by authoritarism. However, from the
Brazilian re-democratization is the emergence of another paradigm for the policy of public security, public safety, proposing, among other things, the reform of institutions of public security and human rights training in police institutions. For the analysis of emerging security paradigm, we support the National Program Human Rights and the National Plan Public Security, federal documents that represent the construction of a new intention for public security in Brazil. Finally, we recognize that, although there are significant reforms in public safety, such a policy, given the prevalence of a traditional security paradigm with strong authoritarian components, is between public safety and continuity of authority.
