School and police in three countries: new wine into old wineskins or the crisis of the institutions. The international spread of school violence has led to the increasing participation of police agents in its premises. This paper analyses the bridges built between school and police in Brazil, Portugal and France, in the so called institutional crisis of post-modernity. The comparison among these countries reveals that these relations develop in the constitutional and public managerial framework of each one. However, laws and regulations are reinterpreted in the social reality, often generating differences in relation to the bureaucracy's ideal type. In this dynamic, we found significant deviations and role overlapping of educators and agents. Several projects have aimed to overcome the gap between police agents and youths, since their roles and appearances oppose themselves reciprocally, according to stereotypes not seldom founded on facts. We propose issues for further research.
Police; School safety; School violence; School management; Prejudice
