Diálogos da sociologia (epistemologia) do meio ambiente com a segurança pública

Abstract

The scenario is that of public safety, the criminal issue, and their implications. Crime rates and feelings of insecurity are permanent agendas for Brazilians and the international community. The conclusion that we have is that of an insufficiency of the current institutions of a penal and administrative nature to deal with minimizing the picture of violence that is considered above what is tolerable by society. Thus, the problem that instigates our research is to know if environmental epistemology is capable of reaching theoretical contributions and scientific wisdom to deal with phenomena related to criminal matters and public safety? In this way, the objective of the research is to provide instruments of environmental epistemology to act as an increment of actions to be carried out through public policies and participation of civil society, in the wake of achieving the constitutional desideratum of the search for community environments that excel in quality of life, well-being and sustainability of life in society. The theoretical foundations are based on dialogues of knowledge of environmental epistemology, systemic and complexity theories, as well as the Theory of Risk, permeating the foundations of the State, Civil Society, Fundamental Rights and public security bodies. The research was developed using a qualitative study, articulated between the hermeneutic and analytical methods. Establish the fundamentals of the State and Civil Society and Fundamental Rights related to issues involving Public Security, establish Risk, Complexity and Systemic Theories as means of cognition, situate the role of police institutions as institutions for the defense of citizenship, outline a diagnosis of data and formal structures of the bodies that make up the structure of public security, dealing with ecological / environmental knowledge related to sustainable (urban) communities, are results achieved with the research, allowing to conclude that environmental epistemology, belonging to the field of social sciences, is able to serve as a substrate and umbrella that welcomes options of greater breadth and integration for the implementation of public policies capable of qualifying responses to the criminal and violence issue, favoring quality of life, well-being and social peace. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]