Monitoring the crime prevention policy in Minas Gerais

Abstract

Methods of public policy monitoring have gained relevance with the emergence of managerial reforms of the public administration. However, the use of information by managers persists as an imminent challenge. The objective of this study is to identify and categorize, based on the literature, the use of the information collected from the monitoring strategies adopted in the Crime Prevention Policy in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, based on qualitative research. The study observed that managers make direct and political use of information in an instrumental, procedural, persuasive, and imposed form. However, the policy does not have a structured monitoring system. The production of information is concentrated in the local units of implementation, the publicity of the data is insufficient, and the activities are seen as instruments of control and inspection.

Keywords:
monitoring and evaluation; uses of monitoring; social crime prevention policy; Minas Gerais