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Abstract : Some Temporarily Successful Experiences along Three Decades of Failure: Crime and Public Policy in Brazil
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Abstract : Public Safety Policy in the State of Minas Gerais (2003-2016): Agenda Problems and Path Dependence
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Abstract: In this paper, we reconstitute the Minas Gerais state public safety policy with regard to its agenda and discontinuity over thirteen years (2003-2016). Our purpose is to present reflections that help understand the impasses which ultimately led to the burial of a reputedly successful public policy and to a return to the old way public safety has historically been managed by Brazilian federative states. Our findings inform that the priority agenda of integration promoted by the State Secretariat of Social Defense did manage to institutionalize itself for some time. Nonetheless, as the office goes through political transformations, priorities in the agenda also change, denoting path dependence, given the resumption of the institutional arrangement that existed prior to 2003, with police institutions on one side and the prison system on the other. In this context, the novelty is the permanence of prevention actions. Keywords: Public Safety, Discontinuity, Agenda Problem, Path dependence, Minas Gerais. |
Abstract : Violence, Criminal Subjection and Political Merchandise in Brazil: An Overview from Rio
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Abstract: The author examines the main dimensions of urban violence in the case of Rio de Janeiro, which includes criminal prosecution of violent collective actors and the participation of policemen in the offer of "political merchandise" to the same actors that the police repress. Keywords: Criminality, urban violence, drug trafficking, political merchandise, Rio de Janeiro. |
Abstract : Public Security and Policy Networks in Brazil
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Abstract: This article discussed the problems of governance of the policy networks in Brazilian public security field. After distinguished the concepts of police, policing and policy, we will describe the constitution of public security networks on two issues concerning the residents of Brasilia, the Brazil’s capital: crime-related problems in schools and deaths in the traffic. Then, we will discuss the nature and the challenges of policy networks and evaluate the governance capacity of the Brazilian Secretariats of Public Security (SSP’s). We conclude that there is poor governance capacity due to the historical functions of SSP’s. Keywords: Public Security, Policy Networks, Governance, Secretariats of Public Security, Brazil. |
