Segurança de fronteiras e divisas no Brasil

Abstract

This research is part of the Advanced Studies Course in Politics and Strategy conducted at the Brazilian National War College, which addresses security, defense and development themes. This monography is entitled Borders and Limits’ Security in Brazil, and it arises from the problem: “How the Brazilian State can organize itself to police its borders and boundaries”? To reach this aim, the general objective to be pursued by the author is to discuss the Brazilian State structure to confront transnational criminal organizations operating on the country's borders and limits. This text is organized on five specific objectives. Regarding the methodology, the approach is qualitative, It has a multidisciplinary bias, and it is composed by bibliographic and documentary material. Initially, the development of this work presents important terms and definition for this investigation, such as limits and borders. Then, ultraviolence is delimited, considering that it is a current issue in the Brazilian public security sector, including on borders and boundaries context. There is a section dedicated to the other concepts and definitions of this research, in particular about the public security view, preventive (ostensive) and repressive policing, borders and limits policing, Transnational Criminal Organization and ultraviolence, and ultraviolent Criminal Organization. In sequence, the structure of the Brazilian State is explained from the perspective of public security, analyzing the integrated actions to confront Criminal Organizations, and the legal aspects involving police actions in border and limit’s regions. The final considerations and proposals are several, such as the improvement of criminal and procedural legislation, as well as a new criminal classifications and changes in the police forces, the creation or changes in the missions of federal police forces. Thus, this study brings some added information and advises the need for continued researches, in order to improve the conditions of Brazilian borders and limits’ security.