This book discusses police education in Brazil and other countries of Latin America, with a focus on finding ways for police to maintain respect for citizenship and adhere to democratic values.
This book discusses police education in Brazil and other countries of Latin America, with a focus on finding ways for police to maintain respect for citizenship and adhere to democratic values.
Latin America has been struggling for decades with economic vulnerabilities, extreme social inequality, and political and institutional weaknesses. As a result, the region has faced difficulties in maintaining order and democratizing due process of law. Their capacity has been limited by a lack of social legitimacy and professionalization of the States agencies, resulting from having been historically instrumentalized by dominant elites for the satisfaction of their own economic and institutional interests. Some outcomes have been the adoption by police of an adversarial view of citizens and their constitutional rights as well as high rates of police violence and lethality. This collection represents an unprecedented English-language discussion offering comparative analysis of the realities and problems of Latin America. The contributors address the complex education of police officers as well as the technical and professional capacity of police in the daily exercise of their activities.
This book will be a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners working in and around Brazilian and Latin American policing, as well as students and scholars of international law enforcement.
Introduction: Police Education in Brazil and Latin America Part 1:
Police Education: An Inside and Outside View
1. New directions in the
shaping of police identity? Perceptions of police officers - civil and
military - on the impact of Master and Doctorate courses on the performance
of police work
2. Educational Processes in the Workplace and the Challenges
of Reforming Police Education: A Study of the Military Police of São Paulo,
Brazil3.Saluting in Democracy: Dilemmas of the Militarization of the Military
Police of the State of São Paulo (PMESP) and the Carabineros of Chile
4.
Obedience above all else: authority, submission, and legitimacy in police
work
5. CHARLIE MIKE: Military Songs and the Hidden Curriculum in Military
Police Training
6. Autocratic Militarism and police training: Military Police
performance and inequalities reproduction in Brazil Part 2: Issues and
Perspectives of Police Education in Latin America
7. Innovations in Police
Education in Latin America 8.Trends in Policing Education in Argentina
9.Policing models, ambivalences: the case of Chile and Colombia 10.Bachelors
Degree in Public Security at the University of Guadalajara (México) 11.The
challenge of training and professionalization of police in Central America in
the last decade: The cases of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, and
Guatemala
12. Educating police for peace: a challenge in Colombia
Eduardo Cerqueira Batitucci is a researcher at the João Pinheiro Foundation, linked to the Directorate of Public Policies and the Nucleus for Studies in Public Security (NESP). His research interests are sociology of crime, violence and institutions of the criminal justice system, working mainly on the following topics: public security, public policies, crime, police and functioning of the Criminal Justice System.
Paula Poncioni is a retired professor from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and currently teaches courses offered to public security professionals by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security. She has been a member of the Brazilian Forum on Public Security since 2009 and a member of its Board of Directors since 2018. She has also been editor-in-chief of The Brazilian Journal of Public Security since 2029. Her research focuses on police education, professions, violence, public policy, public security and democracy.
José Vicente Tavares dos Santos is Professor of Sociology at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, and Research at CNPq National Council of Scientific Development (Brazil). He has held several eminent positions, including Director of the Latin American Institute for Advanced Studies, UFRGS, President of the Latin American Sociological Association, and President of the Brazilian Society of Sociology, among many others. He has published books, chapters and papers in different countries: Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, England, France, Portugal, Turkey, South Africa and Taiwan.
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