POLICE VIOLENCE: LETHALITY DURING THE BRAZILIAN POLICE APPROACH AND THE RULE OF LAW FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE

Abstract

This work seeks to understand to what extent the violence of public security agents in Brazil reveals the need for Transitional Justice to the Rule of Law. Furthermore, the work intends to investigate the maintenance of authoritarian behaviors incorporated in Brazilian institutions through the actions of public security agents, even after the country's redemocratization, as well as the consequences of these arbitrariness in current democracy through the analysis of lethality rates in approaches carried out by Brazilian police and their roots. In this sense, the work considers the idea of ​​Transitional Justice as a dimension of human rights as a mechanism for overcoming impunity for crimes against the rights of humanity. To achieve the research objectives, the research method used will be qualitative and indirect deductive and the research techniques used will be bibliographic and documentary research. That said, the work aims to analyze the elements of a Rule of Law, its materialization and principles, as well as pointing out the fundamental pillars of Transitional Justice, elucidating them, mentioning the conduct necessary for its implementation, in order to point out possible contributions for the discussion of the research problem presented. In addition to demonstrating the contemporary notion of Transitional Justice.