Pedagogia da mediação de conflitos versus razão persecutória: uma discussão sobre a lógica, o ethos e as perspectivas emancipatórias do policial de investigação criminal em Minas Gerais

Abstract

This paper refers to the professional atmosphere of the Police Force of Minas Gerais, Brazil, public authority organization legally responsible for judicial, scientific and technical work of criminal investigation. This paper discusses the institutional culture of its operators touching feelings, viewpoints, conceptual representations and maps typical group features inside a perspective of relationship among the respective carriers, namely, Delegado de Polícia (Chief of Police/Sheriff), Médico-Legista (Coroner), PeritoCriminal (Crime Scene Investigator), Escrivão de Polícia (Police Registrar) and Agente de Polícia (Police Officer). Following this trail, it queries the social functions of these actors concerning those announced by law or spontaneously fulfilled on a daily práxis of their units and police departments. It also points out the importance of police institutions in the perspective of the mediation of violent conflicts or tending to violence, in orbit of interpersonal, familiar, communitarian and social relationships, in other words, approaches the political- institutional universe of Brazilian democracy, given that, the exercise of the judicial- investigative police, core of the normative competency of the State Police Force, resounds directly in life quality and right distribution to the population. In this reflexion, it confronts the signals of two sides of the Police Forces imaginary: the first one, of conservative hallmark, identified with a representation of a person in conflict with the law as an enemy liable to neutralisation in the face/presence of citizenship; and a second one, in a more creative hallmark, that puts it as a problem liable to a complex resignification opened to pondered, interinstitutional and mediator interventions, aiming at a reconstruction of lives immersed in the criminal world. In the scenarios of this historic ethos, it tries to defend possible conceptual marks towards a paradigmatic redefinition of the criminal investigative work, including other dimensions beyond those classically defined by the criminal and procedural law. In this endeavor, it discusses the question of necessary knowledge to individual property of these civil servants so as to admit the pertinency of an applied theory of the range of scientific disciplines (of human, social and natural sciences), technically appropriate to the act of crime investigation and criminal phenomenon.