PUBLIC SECURITY AND GOVERNANCE: FROM CONCEPT TO PRACTICE

Abstract

The study aimed to understand how Brazilian literature has thought about governance in Brazilian public security through an integrative review. The research bases used were Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Scopus and Scientific Periodicals Electronic Library (SPELL), and the time frame chosen was 10 years, covering between January 2013 and September 2023. Evidence was found to suggest that governance under a managerialist orientation is already absorbed by the organizational culture of public security institutions, the selected studies show that these institutions use systematic management instruments. Under the conceptual orientation of network governance, although the selected studies indicate that they already have some practical experiences in this sense, it does not yet appear to be part of the organizational culture of public security institutions, apparently they have not yet adapted to the mechanisms of transparency and social participation promoted by the federal constitution of 1988, being marked by opacity and low degree of civil society participation in the formulation, planning and implementation of public security policies. The low degree of interinstitutional coordination between the public security organizations themselves, and between these and other public administration organizations, was also evident. The main network governance experiences arising are from community policing. The article makes an unprecedented contribution to how the literature has discussed the topic of governance in public security.