Public security: the role of the criminal police in maintaining citizenship in Brazil

ABSTRACT

This article is a bibliographic research that has as its theme Public Security and Citizenship. The general objective of

this study is to point out the role of the criminal police in maintaining citizenship in Brazil. The specific objectives

are: to characterize public security in Brazil; discuss the complex relationship that encompasses the protection of non-

incarcerated citizens and at the same time involves humane treatment of the prisoner; present the criminal police as an

important element for the resocialization of the prisoner. The criminal police officer carries out a task linked to democratic

practices, presenting a citizenship relationship in the face of the challenges of the resocialization of the individual. The

activities carried out by the criminal police are measures to ensure the protection of the prisoner from the execution of

the sentence in a humanized way, but they also represent the State exercising the protection of civil society. The right to

public security is a state duty that must guarantee public order, maintain democracy in the country and protect the citizen.

Keywords: Public Security. Citizenship. Criminal Police. Resocialization. Democracy