In this article, I present the punitive public safety law paradigm in Brazil and its transformation in the framework proposed by the 1st National Conference on Public Security, held by the Ministry of Justice. The theoretical mark that guides the analysis is centrally critical criminology and developed central argument is that to overcome the repressive public security paradigm is necessary in ideological and symbolic level, surpass and redefine the fundamental concepts and common sense that support it : crime (identified with street crime and poverty), violence (identified with this crime) and public safety (identified with security against this crime).
Public Safety; Brazil; Order; Punitive Paradigm; Human Rights; Paradigm Shift