Subjects

Master’s Degree

 

Area of Concentration: Public Security, Justice, Conflicts, and Citizenship 

 

PUBLIC SAFETY DATABASE (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: Database. Build a database. Dynamic table. Construction of tables. Construction of graphs. Calculation of statistical measures. 

 

CRIMINOLOGICAL CRITICISM OF THE PENAL SYSTEM (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: Epistemology of criminology, interdisciplinarity and rupture of theoretical paradigms. From the etiological criminology to the criminology of social reaction. The labeling approach, criminological turn. Critical Criminology and its Impact on Latin America. The Latin American criminological gaze. The understanding of the penal system from critical criminological knowledge. Tensions between criminal dogmatic, criminology and criminal policy. Analysis of the legitimacy discourses of the penal system and its overcoming by criminological criticism. 

 

ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE IN PUBLIC SECURITY INSTITUTIONS (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: Meaning of culture in Social Anthropology. The ethnographic method for the study of organizations. The differences between the conceptions of organizational culture in the areas of management and human sciences. Organizational culture and Brazilian culture. Organizational culture studies in public security institutions. 

 

PUBLIC SPHERE, ETHICS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL MEDIATION (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: Public sphere and its paradigmatic aspects. Concept of public sphere. Public sphere and ethics in institutional relations. Public sphere, institutional action and human rights. Conflicts in the public sphere and social mediation. 

 

STATE AND PARTICIPATORY SOCIAL DEFENSE MANAGEMENT (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: The State and Political Theories. The State and the bureaucracy in Brazil. The sociology of organizations and the question of public management. The reforms of the public administration in Brazil and the question of the organs of security and social defense. The State and the management of national and state public security plans. Participatory management in social defense. 

 

STATE, SOCIAL CONTROL AND PUBLIC POLICIES (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: This discipline will discuss the emergence of the modern state, including the creation of mechanisms of formal social control. It will also discuss the emergence of modern police institutions as well as public security policies. Thus, the main themes are: Modern State and governmentality. The police office. Security as one of the new world social issues. Peace-building processes in the contemporary world. Public security policies: trends and paradigms.

 

THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS IN TEACHING AND LEARNING IN PUBLIC SECURITY (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: Under development.

 

GEOSTATISTICS APPLIED TO PUBLIC SECURITY (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: Measurement problems; descriptive statistics. Introduction to geographic information systems; exploratory analysis of spatial data; techniques used in violence and crime research. 

 

READING, WRITING AND PRESENTATION OF ACADEMIC WORK (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: Under Development.

 

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND PROJECT ELABORATION (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: The planning of the research project: types of research. Types of approach. Instruments of data collection. Problem, hypothesis and variables. Structure of a research process. Informational methodologies. Exercises and strategies of operationalization and verification. Characteristics of a Master's Dissertation. 

 

STATISTICAL METHODS APPLIED TO PUBLIC SECURITY (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: Fundamental concepts. Statistical tables: graphical representation. Summation properties: number rounding, frequency distribution. Measures of central tendency: average, mode and median. Separative measures: quartile, decile and percentile. Dispersion or Variability measures: variance, standard deviation and coefficient of variation. 

 

QUALITATIVE METHODS APPLIED TO PUBLIC SECURITY (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: Construction of the theoretical basis and research survey. Collection of qualitative data. Construction of collection instruments. Techniques of qualitative analysis applied to Public Security. Introduction to Content Analysis according to Bardin. Review of the literature and research in the area of ​​public security.

 

QUANTITATIVE METHODS APPLIED TO PUBLIC SECURITY (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: Sampling. Stratification. Check sheets. Pareto Diagram. Ishikawa Diagram. Correlation graphs. Program Some statistical tests. Software application.

 

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND CONFLICTS IN THE AMAZON (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: International environmental agenda. Formatting of environmental policies in Brazil. Conflicts and environmental security policies in the Amazon: water, energy, forestry, minerals resources and climatic services. Risk, environmental citizenship and sustainable governance of public security spaces. 

 

CARTOGRAPHIC PRODUCTION AND CRIMINAL SPACE ANALYSIS (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: The Geography of violence. Spatial / territorial knowledge as a decision-making variable in Public Security. Geoinformation Tools in Crime Analysis. Representations of Critical Variables with applications to the problems of Criminality. 

 

BEHAVIORAL PSYCHOLOGY AND HEALTH IN PUBLIC SAFETY (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: Characterization of Behavior Analysis, Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Applied Analysis of Behavior and Its Philosophical Basis. Behavior Agencies. Working Conditions in Public Safety and Health Relationship: Stress, Burnout Syndrome, Anxiety, Depression, Absenteeism, Family Conflicts in the Exercise of the Profession. Evaluation Scales; Forms of Confrontation – The Role of Resilience and the Work Environment Configuration. Importance of Interpersonal Relationships at Work; Search for Positive Interaction in the Promotion of Public Security. Multidisciplinary Performance in Health in Public Security.

 

RESEARCH SEMINARS  (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: Qualis CAPES. Portal of Journals of Capes. Search Engines. How to Present Jobs. Modes of presentation. Phases of a survey. Formatting Qualification Projects. 

 

SOCIAL THEORIES OF CRIME AND VIOLENCE (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: Definitions of crime. Definitions of violence. Contemporary approach to violence and crime. The sociology of crime and violence in Brazil. Violence and crime in the contemporary world: some empirical considerations. Implications of the sociology of crime and violence for public security policies. Definitions of crime. Definitions of violence. Contemporary approach to violence and crime. The sociology of crime and violence in Brazil.

 

SPECIAL TOPICS IN PUBLIC SAFETY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: The objective of this subject is to offer important debates, which concern the issue of public safety and criminal justice, and that the needs of the topics that will be worked out in the course will be adjusted.  

 

SPECIAL TOPICS IN PUBLIC SAFETY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE: BASIC ENTOMOLOGY (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: General morphology of insects. Classification of insects and characteristics of orders. Identification of insects at the level of orders and families. Methods of collecting and sampling insects. Preparation: Sacrificing, preserving, assembling and labeling insects; Organization of collections.

 

SPECIAL TOPICS IN PUBLIC SAFETY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE: DIPTERA FORENSIC INTEREST (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: Morphology of the order Diptera and the main families of forensic interest. Identification of families, genera and species of diptera of forensic importance. Use of identification keys. Methods of collecting and sampling diptera of forensic interest. Preparation: Sacrifice, preserve, assemble and label Diptera. Organization of collections.

 

VIOLENCE, CRIME AND POLICE WORK IN LATIN AMERICA (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: Democracy and Violence in Latin America, Migration, Fragility of Institutions in Latin America, Gangs, Drugs, Homicide, Police and Policing Strategies in Latin America.