In Brazil, where crime is closely associated with social inequality and failure of the criminal justice system, the police are considered by most to be corrupt, inefficient, and violent, especially when occupying poor areas, and they lack the widespread legitimacy enjoyed by police forces in many nations in the northern hemisphere. This text covers hot-button issues like urban pacification squads, gangs, and drugs, as well as practical topics such as policy, dual civil and military models, and gender relations. The latest volume in the renowned Advances in Police Theory and Practice Series, Police and Society in Brazil fills a gap in English literature about policing in a nation that currently ranks sixth in number of homicides. It is a must-read for criminal justice practitioners, as well as students of international policing.
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This text covers hot-button issues like urban pacification squads, gangs, and drugs, as well as practical topics such as policy, dual civil and military models, and gender relations.
Series PrefacePreface: The Prospects for Change in Brazilian PolicingRicardo BalestreriAbout the EditorsContributorsChapter 1: Police and Society in BrazilVicente Riccio and Wesley G. SkoganSection I: The Organization of Brazilian PoliceChapter 2: The Dual Civil and Military Models for Policing in BrazilLuiz Flavio SaporiChapter 3: Hierarchy, Career, and Professional Advancement in the Civil PoliceVicente Riccio, André Zogahib, Janaína Lawall, and Mario AufieroChapter 4: Police Culture and Organizational Reform in BrazilEduardo Cerqueira Batitucci, Marcus Vinícius Gonçalves da Cruz, Amanda Matar de Figueiredo, and Letícia Godinho de Souza Chapter 5: Managing Gender Relations in the Brazilian PoliceLudmila Mendonça RibeiroSection II: The Police and Their ProblemsChapter 6: Police Repression and the Drug Business in BrazilPaulo Fraga and Joyce Kelli do Nascimento Silva Chapter 7: Race, Class, and Law Enforcement in BrazilRenato Sérgio de Lima and Jacqueline SinhorettoChapter 8: Use of Force and Police Reform in BrazilWesley G. SkoganChapter 9: Gangs, Drugs, and Urban Pacification Squads in RioVicente Riccio and Wesley G. SkoganChapter 10: Community Policing in the Favelas of Rio de JaneiroVicente Riccio, Steven Dutt Ross, and Wesley G. SkoganSection III: The Police and the Public PolicyChapter 11: Professionalizing the Military Police Through TrainingVicente Riccio, Marcio Rys Meirelles de Miranda, and Angelica MüllerChapter 12: Police Reform in Brazil: The Rise and Demise of PRONASCIMarco Aurélio Ruediger
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780367878313
Publisert
2019-12-05
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
410 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
206

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Vicente Riccio is a Professor in the graduate program of Law and Innovation at Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil. He also has worked as a consultant for many public institutions in Brazil, such as the Ministry of Justice, Public Security Secretary of Rio de Janeiro, and the Civil Police of Amazonas, among others. He has coordinated many educational programs for police officers and criminal justice professionals in different states of Brazil. His research interests cover diverse topics such as police reform, police cultures, legal systems in developing democracies, media and justice, and video evidence.

Wesley G. Skogan is Professor of Political Science and a Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. His research focuses on policing, community responses to crime, victimization, and fear of crime. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology, and was a Senior Fellow of the Center for Crime, Communities, and Culture of the Open Societies Institute. He organized the Committee on Police Policies and Practices for the National Research Council and served as its chair. He is the co-author (with Kathleen Frydl) of the committee report Fairness and Effectiveness in Policing: The Evidence. Earlier, he spent two years at the National Institute of Justice as a Visiting Fellow. In 2015, he received the Distinguished Achievement Award in Evidence-Based Crime Policy from the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy.