Controle social na gestão de Manuel Cordeiro Neto na Secretaria de Polícia e Segurança Pública/CE (1935-1941)

Abstract

The analysis of the first management of Manuel Cordeiro Neto on police and public security Secretary of the State of Ceará was fundamental to understand the discourse and practice of the police. The central objective of the research was concentrated on reflecting the extent of police determine the use of the work of prisoners and correctional "unoccupied" on public works construction and reform as a measure riddled in a policy directive based on design and in the ideals of rational and instruction work, aimed at construction and organization of the State and the deployment of forms of social control in Ceará andmainly in the city of Fortaleza in 1935 to 1941. The methodology used is based on parameters established by social history, analyzing documentary sources of the APEC and newspapers O Povo e O Nordeste. In Ceará, the social control mechanism were adopted not only in the urban space, but also in the country where one of the biggest expressions of police repression, i.e. the extinction of the community Caldeirão. Understanding the city and the countryside as historical experiences, we inquired as to function and the power of the police were perceived in social relations, starting from the analysis of the identities of the prisoners, their motivations correctional prisons, the maintenance of social institutions and the construction and renovation of the buildings of the police apparatus; as reflected in society a social control based on the speech of labour and education; and to what extent this control mechanism has been effective.