João Trajano Sento-Sé

A EXPERIÊNCIA DA SUJEIÇÃO À AUTORIDADE POLICIAL: NOTAS SOBRE A ARTICULAÇÃO ENTRE COGNIÇÃO E EMOÇÃO NA VIDA PÚBLICA

The article analyzes the experience of submission to police authority through in-depth interviews with citizens of middle and high strata of Rio de Janeiro who have been subjected to police stops in blitzes related to the Lei Seca. Its purpose is to investigate in those experiences the articulation between cognitive and emotional aspects, that is, how cognitive aspects (concepts of authority, legality, power, violence, etc.) are intertwined with emotional dimensions. In so doing, the article seeks to contribute to the study of emotions in public life as well as to the field of studies on policing. Finally, based on Norbert Elias observations, the article discusses the impact on policing studies of the central role occupied by conflict in the choice/construction of research objects in the social sciences.

Prevenção ao crime e teoria social

The article establishes a dialogue between positivist criminology and some contemporary currents on crime prevention inspired in sociological theories. Through this exercise, we seek to highlight that some of the formulations focused in the preventions field appear, in embryonic state, in the positivist theoretical agenda. Likewise, it is possible to explicit that some empirical and practical tenets of positivism are less foreign to contemporary theories of crime prevention than is usually recognized.