“A good criminal is a dead criminal”? - Bolsonaro's criminal policy and public security rhetoric in the first year of Jair Bolsonaro's government.
Criminal policy, public safety, race, criminology, weapons
The work presents an analysis of criminal policy in the first year of government (2019) of the then President of the Republic, Jair Bolsonaro, produced from presidential legislative acts, from the perspective of critical criminology, racism and race relations in Brazil. To this end, we analyzed the presidential decrees, the provisional measures, as well as the legislative proposals - their processing - authored by the Executive Branch to the National Congress that year, bserving the printed narrative justifying the promotion and guarantee of public security, the combat crime, corruption and organized crime.
The first chapter provides a review of the criminology schools that marked and still mark the production of Brazilian legislation. In the second chapter, we analyze presidential decrees (59), provisional measures (02) and bills (06), based on theories of critical and positivist criminology, as well as critical race theory, classifying the normative instruments analyzed. in the following categories Weapons; Public Security and Guarantee Systems.
In the third and final chapter we present the conclusions of the work seeking to identify the criminological lines adopted as a backdrop for the criminal policy implemented from that year onwards.