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0177/2021 - Police narratives on the prevention of violence and youth: experiences in Brazil and Scotland.
Narrativas policiais sobre prevenção da violência e juventudes: experiências no Brasil e na Escócia

Author:

• Juliana Silva Corrêa - Corrêa, J. S. - <correajugeo@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7163-6597

Co-author(s):

• Fátima Cecchetto - Cecchetto, F. - <face.fiocruz@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3080-5582
• Fernando Lannes Fernandes - Fernandes, F. L. - <f.l.fernandes@dundee.ac.uk>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4377-4597


Abstract:

This study analyses the narratives of police officers about violence prevention initiatives in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. To analyse the data, it was used the theoretical-methodological framework of social sciences, based on the interpretative anthropology. The results show the demand for intervention at an increasingly early stage, aiming at young peopleurban peripheral neighbourhoods. “Unstructured family environment”, “social vulnerability” and “involvement with crime” are mentioned as risk factors and reinforce narratives that favour the perspective of negativism and of youth as \"social problem\" prevail, unifying formulations that are structured by the symbiosis between the role of the state agent and the moral ethos that sustains the discretionary powers of police officers. The study signals the complexity of the interventions, and the disputes around the modes of control and the production of order in the two contexts analysed. The research suggests for future studies to investigate how the rationality present in the field of public health has been incorporated into public security policies and programs and highlights the risks of reinforcing stigmatising narratives over poor youth in violence prevention initiatives.

Keywords:

prevention, violence, youth, public health, policing

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Corrêa, J. S., Cecchetto, F., Fernandes, F. L.. Police narratives on the prevention of violence and youth: experiences in Brazil and Scotland.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2021/May). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/police-narratives-on-the-prevention-of-violence-and-youth-experiences-in-brazil-and-scotland/18076?id=18076



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