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Revista Psicologia Política

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MIRANDA, Gabriel  and  PAIVA, Ilana Lemos de. The blind alleys about the Brazilian public security: notes on the fetish of the Penal State. Rev. psicol. polít. [online]. 2017, vol.17, n.38, pp.44-56. ISSN 1519-549X.

The purpose of this study is to discuss the risks and limitations of a debate on public security that ignores the economic, political and social dimensions, and to discuss, albeit in an introductory way, the variables that contribute to the overrepresentation of poor and black youths in the statistics on the lethal victims of actions - resulting from police intervention and in the data about the people that compose the penal institutions of deprivation of liberty. For the construction of this essay, analyses of documents and databases were carried out, which provided secondary quantitative data, vital to provide solidity to the arguments developed throughout the article. It is noteworthy, as initial notes, that prisons, military police action and lynching practices constitute ineffective to act in the reduction of crime rates and urban violence, even though they serve the function of criminalizing the poor sectors of labour class.

Keywords : Penal State; Police; Racism; Youth; Public security.

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