PERSPECTIVES FOR PREDICTIVE POLICING POLICIES: BETWEEN THE EFFICIENCY OF PUBLIC SECURITY POLICIES AND THE PROTECTION OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS

• Grant number: 24/21111-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: August 01, 2025
• End date: July 31, 2027
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Law - Public Law
• Principal Investigator: Lucas Catib de Laurentiis
• Grantee: Christiany Pegorari Conte
• Host Institution: Escola de Ciências Humanas, Jurídicas e Sociais (EHJS). Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUC-CAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 23/10005-1 - Égide Project: Violence, education and surveillance in schools in the city of Campinas, AP.PP

Abstract

Public safety is an indeterminate concept that allows for multiple interpretations and implementations. For this reason, cultural, regulatory and, above all, technological variables and specificities have determined the advancement of broad public safety systems, which, in turn, are interconnected with international surveillance and policing agencies and authorities. In this sense, international agreements for cooperation in evidentiary matters (among them, MLAT [Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty] recently declared constitutional by the Supreme Federal Court), as well as international intelligence agencies (among them, Interpol and Europol) have expanded their powers of surveillance and data collection, activities that are based on broad international regulations on criminal matters. This involves, therefore, the construction of a predictive policing system that seeks to anticipate the practice of crimes considered serious. This has increased the prosecution capacity of the prosecution bodies, which, in order to combat criminal activities, have gained access to large personal databases, an action that often occurs indiscriminately. Based on the study of these international experiences, this research aims to situate the public policy to be implemented in the Aegis under the perspective of international law for the protection of human rights, while also considering the pressing need to combat and prevent catastrophic events (including actions that cause irreparable damage to the life and physical integrity of teachers, students and school employees). Adopting bibliographic analysis as a methodology (academic works published in the last 20 years will be collected in international databases), as well as documentary analysis (judgments of the Federal Supreme Court will be collected, as well as Brazilian standards and international agreements internalized in the Brazilian legal system and which deal with the subject of predictive policing will be systematized), the project seeks to compose a robust theoretical framework regarding the concepts involved in predictive policing mechanisms, as well as mapping the dangers and consequences of the unrestricted application of these instruments. As an expected result, the research seeks to present a sophisticated theoretical framework that presents concrete solutions to the criminological dilemmas verified in the Égide project.