Neither Hero nor Villain: The Determinants of Confidence in the UPP Police

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Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro,Ludmila Mendonça Lopes
Data de Publicação: 2020
Outros Autores: Vilarouca,Márcio Grijó
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Dados - Revista de Ciências Sociais
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Resumo: ABSTRACT In this article we analyze the determinants of confidence in the Police Pacification Units ( Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora – UPPs). During their existence (2008-2018), “pacification” was represented by the media as an institutional hybrid which moved between two extremes. The police were either presented as heroes, whom people wanted to guarantee the end of shootings and ensure security in areas previously marked by violence, or as villains, rejected because of the lethality of their actions and the arbitrariness of how they dealt with people. Taking these representations as ideal types, we sought to identify the determinants of confidence in the police, with the counterpoint being a domiciliary survey carried out between 2014 and 2016 with 2000 residents distributed among twenty “pacified” favelas in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The results indicated that the respondents had ambiguous sentiments towards the UPP police, mediated by the perception that shootings were part of daily life in these communities and that the “pacification” had improved security, making the police neither heroes nor villains.
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title Neither Hero nor Villain: The Determinants of Confidence in the UPP Police
spellingShingle Neither Hero nor Villain: The Determinants of Confidence in the UPP Police
Ribeiro,Ludmila Mendonça Lopes
UPP
confidence
police
Rio de Janeiro
favelas
pacification
title_short Neither Hero nor Villain: The Determinants of Confidence in the UPP Police
title_full Neither Hero nor Villain: The Determinants of Confidence in the UPP Police
title_fullStr Neither Hero nor Villain: The Determinants of Confidence in the UPP Police
title_full_unstemmed Neither Hero nor Villain: The Determinants of Confidence in the UPP Police
title_sort Neither Hero nor Villain: The Determinants of Confidence in the UPP Police
author Ribeiro,Ludmila Mendonça Lopes
author_facet Ribeiro,Ludmila Mendonça Lopes
Vilarouca,Márcio Grijó
author_role author
author2 Vilarouca,Márcio Grijó
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Ribeiro,Ludmila Mendonça Lopes
Vilarouca,Márcio Grijó
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv UPP
confidence
police
Rio de Janeiro
favelas
pacification
topic UPP
confidence
police
Rio de Janeiro
favelas
pacification
description ABSTRACT In this article we analyze the determinants of confidence in the Police Pacification Units ( Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora – UPPs). During their existence (2008-2018), “pacification” was represented by the media as an institutional hybrid which moved between two extremes. The police were either presented as heroes, whom people wanted to guarantee the end of shootings and ensure security in areas previously marked by violence, or as villains, rejected because of the lethality of their actions and the arbitrariness of how they dealt with people. Taking these representations as ideal types, we sought to identify the determinants of confidence in the police, with the counterpoint being a domiciliary survey carried out between 2014 and 2016 with 2000 residents distributed among twenty “pacified” favelas in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The results indicated that the respondents had ambiguous sentiments towards the UPP police, mediated by the perception that shootings were part of daily life in these communities and that the “pacification” had improved security, making the police neither heroes nor villains.
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