The research investigates the new bases of formulation of the Brazilian public security policies from the analysis of recent advances in the area, focusing on the national program of public security with citizenship (Programa Nacional de Segurança Pública com Cidadania - Pronasci. Since the re-democratization process in Brazil, the social problems have increased like the high rates of crime and violence as a result of a historical process of exclusion and social inequality of the lowest classes of the population. The research seeks to explain the trajectories of the implementation of a new paradigm regarding the public security. Therefore, it is considered as a model the process of decentralization that makes municipalities key-players of the management of the public security, working in cooperation with other federal entities, such as states and the Union. The research results show the emergence of a new model of public security management in Brazil in the period analyzed, based on the concept, internationally accepted, of citizen security.
public security; public policies; violence; Pronasci.