1st Edition
Police Education in Brazil and Latin America
Introduction: Police Education in Brazil and Latin America
(Eduardo Batitucci, Paula Poncioni and José Vicente Tavares dos Santos)
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
(Paula Poncioni)
2. Educational Processes in the Workplace and the Challenges of Reforming Police Education: A Study of the Military Police of São Paulo, Brazil
(Alan Fernandes)
3. Saluting in Democracy: Dilemmas of the Militarization of the Military Police of the State of São Paulo (PMESP) and the Carabineros of Chile
(Alexandre Pereira da Rocha; Gilvan Gomes da Silva)
4. Obedience above all else: authority, submission, and legitimacy in police work
(Viviane Cubas; Renato Alves)
5. “CHARLIE MIKE”: Military Songs and the Hidden Curriculum in Military Police Training
(Anderson Duarte)
6. Autocratic Militarism and police training: Military Police performance and inequalities reproduction in Brazil
(Felipe Zilli; Jacqueline Sinhoretto)
Part 2: Issues and Perspectives of Police Education in Latin America
7. Innovations in Police Education in Latin America
(José Vicente Tavares-dos-Santos; Nilia Viscardi; Carmen Chinas; Lívio Oliveira)
8. Trends in Policing Education in Argentina
(Sabina Frederic)
9. Policing models, ambivalences: the case of Chile and Colombia
(José Vicente Tavares dos Santos; Maurício Russo)
10. Bachelor’s Degree in Public Security at the University of Guadalajara (México)
(Rogelio Barba)
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
(Julio Solís Moreira)
12. Educating police for peace: a challenge in Colombia
(Jaime Zuluaga Nieto; Carolina Duque)
Biography
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.
