Author:

• Maria Cecília de Souza Minayo - Minayo, M.C.S - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Fundação oswaldo Cruz - <maminayo@terra.com.br> +
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6187-9301

Co-author(s):

• Sérgio Adorno - Adorno, S - Titular do Departamento de Sociologia, FFLCH/USP, Coordenador do NEV/USP, do INCT-CNPq Violência, Democracia e Segurança Cidadã e da Cátedra UNESCO de Educação para a Paz, Direitos Humanos, Democracia e Segurança Cidadã - <maminayo@terra.com.br>

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Abstract:

This paper introduces a discussion on the history and use of the concepts of risk and safety, applied to the the police mission. The text is developed in an essay that shows how both terms were developed under the constitution of modern industrial societies. The authors begin with the assumption that the organizational structure of the police in various parts of the world continues with the same logic since they were created during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and that this format is in crisis: whether it is because the concept of risk and its management has now become much broader; or because the concept of security has also deepened and broadened, diverting from the scope of the police institution. The crisis of the police apparatus is an international issue and the authors illustrate with the case of the French police. Returning to the thought of important authors in the sociological approach, the authors put on the agenda the debate on some issues that they consider urgent: redesign of the amplitude of the concepts of risk and safety to understand the police mission, enhancement of police inside and outside of corporations; review on the weight of the rigid hierarchy or inflexibility in his career, in a plural and flexible society

Keywords:

occupational health health police security epidemiological risk social risk

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