The Public security policies

Between repression and crime prevention

Abstract

This article has as its initial purpose to highlight the relationship between public security policies and the forms of state intervention, stemming from socioeconomic transformations and state responses to urban violence processes in recent years. It is firstly
described the strong tendency to reduce the power of the contemporary state, as well as the reconnection of social policies and criminal or security policies in different Western countries. To highlight the way in which the issue of public security in Brazil has been dealt with, particularly since 1995, when national security plans were created from a human rights perspective; with the reconfiguration of the Brazilian state and the constant growth of violence in the country, the federal public authority ended up driving security policies prevalent to the repressive model, to the detriment of a belated guarantee of citizenship consolidation in Brazil. It is a matter of starting a debate based on bibliographical and documentary analysis, and it should be emphasized that the reflection is preliminary, with the intention of subsidizing the research process, in development, on criminal justice and drug users in Manaus.