Participação social e segurança pública : os limites e possibilidades da política de prevenção social à criminalidade de Minas Gerais

Abstract

The finding that the participation of society goes increasingly to be an important element to be considered in modern democracies and that public policies, such as state action, seek to translate, to some extent, the expectations for greater participation in society, is the context in which this work is part. However, the public security policies have traditionally been little or no porous to this participation. Contrary to this pattern, since 2003, in Minas Gerais, a new model of provision of public order, inserting perspectives related to social crime prevention, with features and participatory expectations. This study aimed to describe and analyze, from the analysis of normative documents of the Government of Minas Gerais, the extent to which public safety policy and the policy of preventing social incorporate elements of social participation, as well as the insertion process of participation in government agenda of public safety policy.