Community Policing in the Minas Gerais Civil Police (Brazil): Notes on an Attempt at Organizational Change

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17648/dilemas.v13n3.26532

Keywords:

community policing, organizational change, Civil Police, sociology of organizations, framework analysis

Abstract

This paper aims to understand how community policing, which aims at a change in organizational objectives, promotes changes in the police that decide to adopt it, by studying its application in the Civil Police of Minas Gerais, demonstrating how this community model insertion occurs. policing in a segment focused on investigative practice. Therefore, we used as framework of analysis the structuring concepts of sociology of organizations from a qualitative research conducted in 2017. The notes generated are that community policing is configured as a new name for old practices within the institution under analysis.

Author Biographies

Daniel Araujo de Azevedo, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Doutorando do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia (PPGS) da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brasil). É mestre pelo mesmo programa e tem graduação em ciências sociais pela UFMG. Realizou intercâmbio acadêmico na Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal). Atualmente é analista da Polícia Civil de Minas Gerais e professor do curso de pós-graduação em criminologia da Academia de Polícia Civil de Minas Gerais (Acadepol-MG).

Nayara de Amorim Salgado, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Doutoranda do PPGS da UFMG. É mestre pelo mesmo programa e tem graduação em ciências sociais da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC Minas, Belo Horizonte, Brasil).

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Published

2020-09-14

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Vol. 13 No. 3 (2020): SET/OUT/NOV/DEZ

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