SANTOS, S. S.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8875612492986070; SANTOS, Sidcley da Silva.
Resumo:
Under the eyes of a sociological perspective, this research has had the intent to
comprehend how individuals experiences impact on institutional practices. Therefore,
the Military Police of Alagoas has been the main subject of the study, along with the
influence of security policies which have place in this institution all over the country.
Beyond the established methods of social science, overall, this research innovates in
the use of empirical data that comes from the analysis of social media and social
network profiles of many of these institutions. This practice has enforced the
importance of implementing such approach in future social science analysis
researches.
The content has been divided in four chapters which address three significant
dimensions: a) historical and situational analysis of public security policies in Brazil
(national and local scope); b) the process of socialization and institutional culture
(professional military police graduation schools); and c) the mechanisms to control
police activity. The first and the third chapter adress the evaluation of public security
polices, being the first in national scope and the third in local scope. The second
chapter has focused in analyzing the police officers training procedures, considering
the graduation schools as the first and main environment for socializing, and the
fourth chapter has examined the controlling mechanisms and institutional conflicts
which surround the subject of matter. The set of empirical data, whether quantitative
or qualitative data, has conducted the study to the following results: a) in Brazil, the
field of public security is still being set, be it in the process of action of these
institutions or in cognition elements; b) these security polices are being pushed to a
turbulent environment of institutional conflict which put aside the resolution of real life
problems experienced by Brazilian folks; c) professional graduation schools function
as social ambience which build and destroy speeches and narratives that enforce
warrior habits; d) it has occurred a significant change to the public security polices
that come to act in Alagoas from the years of 2008 to 2020, which begun with a
strong influence of the Federal Government and has ended in discontinuity, bringing
up a new way of experimenting work relationships; and finally e) the institutions that
are responsible for the control of police activity too happen to help to enforce this
environment of institutional conflict.