A Política Nacional de Segurança Pública em tempos neoliberais : discursos da 1ª CONSEG

Abstract

This paper analyzes the speeches of the 1st National Conference on Public Safety from their notebooks and Thematic Reports aiming at shedding some light on criminal trends divulged by the neoliberal project for public safety policies. Its construction consisted of bibliographic and documentary research, and considers discourse analysis as means of technics. Neoliberal trends for the criminal field have been discussed by various authors from the movement to dismantle the Welfare State in the central capitalist countries from the 1970s. The dynamics of these strategies shows that the adherence to the neoliberal ideal is carried out in the process of political struggle. In this sense, it is necessary to understand the speeches of the 1st National Conference on Public Security and thus understand the looks that permeate this process of political deliberation. Theme notebooks and the final conference report are registered as Analysis documents. It was concluded that there is a discontinuity between these documents that record different moments of the Conference. Regarding notebooks, a tone of denouncing the impact of these trends on the coping of the phenomena of crime and violence predominated among the speeches, which have intensified criminalization of poverty and the exaltation of criminal appeal as a solution to social problems. However, it was concluded that the principles and guidelines voted on national stage for guidance of public security policy did not follow the same movement opposed to trends. Such finding highlights the limits of social groups to build their own conception of society and make it hegemonic in civil society spaces.