The field of police studies in the Brazilian social sciences and the views on the theme of police reform

The present study intended to show how researches in the area of research on violence, crime, public security and criminal justice have analyzed the police institution. As well as identifying which are the Brazilian social scientists who have dedicated themselves more to the study of the police and on the theme of the reform of the police organizations. The main objective is to analyze how these researchers have thought the political demand of reforms of the same. Among the results and conclusions of the research, it was noticed that among pioneer researchers in the area of conflict studies, most defend the need for police reform as political-scientific proposals in response to some specific problems of the Brazilian police, according to the studies of each researcher have identified as more relevant. There is a diversity of views on the subject between these researchers, even though there is a slight preference among them for the issue of changes in police training. Few are the ones who see the issue in a more comprehensive and systemic way as a long-term political process that would require, the gradual implementation of a diversity of administrative and legislative measures, in order to reformulate organizational architecture, mentality and long-term police practices.