Subjective careers among Public Security Police Officers in Portugal Susana Durão This text proposes the retrieval of Everett Hughes' concept of the 'subjective career' (1958), embedded in a social theory of organizations. More specifically, the objective consists of proposing an analysis of how police officers perceive a certain rationality in their professional careers. The text is based on a recent ethnographic survey conducted at Lisbon police stations. This research explored the subjective constructions that underlie the stages of the officers' professional life and the definition of certain policing styles. Whenever relevant, some manifest differences between the socialization of men and of women in these contexts are identified. Download (in Portuguese) Inconsistent treatment in a therapeutic community Taniele Rui Based on the experience of a patient called Antônio, this paper intends to show the ambiguities within a therapeutic community aimed at guiding drug addicts to abstinence. The objective is to review the inconsistency in the treatment and the way in which individuals and the institution dealt with uncertainties and doubts. Although reluctant, Antônio stopped using drugs, returned to school and started working. The institution maintains its methodology, discursively revising these inconsistencies. I intend to contribute to the literature about total institutions and shed light on a universe that has a lot to tell us about a specific kind of treatment given to drug users in Brazil. Download (in Portuguese) Accountability and its Different Aspects Involving the Control of the Police Activity in Brazil Viviane de Oliveira Cubas In this article we show that the accountability mechanisms have figured as one of the main indicators of the quality of a democracy, considering that the way the states account their actions demonstrates the level of their social and political order. The aim of this article is to present a summary of the definitions of accountability found in the available literature and to consider them according to an empirical research made in 2008 with the police ombudsman system in Brazil, which works as police controlling agencies and, as the research demonstrates, presents three different profiles. The text highlights that some aspects of this debate predominate when the control of police actions is focused. Download (in Portuguese) The Role of the Types of First Degree Murders in the Social Construction of the Incrimination of the Individual by Prosecutors: Belo Horizonte, Cases Between 2007 and 2009 Klarissa Almeida Silva The discussion presented in this article leads to the question of how the social construction of the author's incrimination and the construction of judiciary truths by Minas Gerais 1st and 2nd Court of Jury prosecutors are operated. We use here a typology of homicides created after 265 charges of first degree murders made by these actors of the Justice System between 2003 and 2005. The steps the prosecutions originated from theses charges had taken between 2007 and 2009 are then described. This is done in the context of a 'mixed' (KANT DE LIMA, 2008) and 'loosely integrated' (COELHO, 19986) system. Download (in Portuguese) The Slaves' Strike in Ponte das Tábuas Farm in 1850 (Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro) Luiz Alberto Couceiro This article, by means of a case study of a criminal prosecution of the Court of Appeal of Nova Friburgo in 1850, tries to gather and analyze the factors that allow to reconstruct the network of relations that bore 'tacit agreements' related to slaves who came from northern provinces, mainly Pernambuco, to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, and the circumstances in which the conflicts happened in the second half of the 19th century. Such conflicts were linked to the understanding of the working rules in the farms and to the concepts of right, 'legitimate punishment' and crime among slaves, free people, landlords and their representatives. Download (in Portuguese) Inside (and insider) of 'Comando': A criminal organization in São Paulo according to the 'native' Review: ‘Junto e misturado: Uma etnografia do PCC’, by Karina Biondi Camila Caldeira Nunes Dias Download (in Portuguese)

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