Poliana da Silva Ferreira

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Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV). Escola de Direito de São Paulo (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal)
Birthplace: Brazil

PhD in Law from FGV-SP. She completed her doctoral internship at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, at Harvard Kennedy School and at the Hutchins Center for African American Research at Harvard University. She holds a Master's degree in Law from FGV, with a research internship at the Université Catholique de Louvain. Author of "Justiça e Letalidade Policial" (Justice and Police Lethality). She is currently the Coordinator of Studies and Research in Public Security at the National Secretariat of Public Security/Ministry of Justice. Areas of interest: Military Law, Criminology, Racial Dynamics, Criminal and Procedural Law. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)

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Scholarships in Brazil

Completed (most recent)

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The proposal seeks to continue a research agenda that is dedicated to observing the legal treatment of police approaches that result in death, focusing on the processing of these occurrences throughout the process of accountability in the justice system. Given the institutional architecture adopted by Brazil to investigate and hold military police officers who committed homicides in servi…
Justifications for (not) responsible for policy that kills: look, speech and representations of legal procedural actors, BP.DR
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The research proposes a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which the state acts in the accountability of military police officers who have been involved in police approaches that have killed a citizen as one of the results, such as the so-called "resistance cars." It is planned to study the state activity in these cases, in the three spheres of action of the criminal justice system and…
Police approaches with result death in the triple rights responsibility of the law, BP.MS

Scholarships abroad

Completed (most recent)

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This research project focus on state control and accountability mechanisms for deaths produced by the police. Our purpose is to observe structures, practices and processes that lead, institutionally, to the identification, investigation, imputation of responsibility of police officers involved in lethal episodes, considering the outcomes of civil, criminal and administrative proceedings. …
Institutional design for accountability of the police that kills: possibilities and limits in racially unequal democracies, BE.EP.DR
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Ce projet de recherche a pour objet le traitement juridique des opérations policières ayant la mort de personnes. Notre but est celui d'observer d'une manière approfondie les des réponses du système de justice aux policiers qui ont participé à de telles opérations, parles trois modes de responsabilisation juridiquement prévus ainsi que les interactions entre ceux-ci. Pour cela, nous parto…
Judgments of police involved in lethal operations: need for an examination through the Sociology of Administration of the Criminal Justice System, BE.EP.MS

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2 / 2	Completed scholarships in Brazil
2 / 2	Completed scholarships abroad
4 / 4	All Scholarships

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Maira Rocha Machado

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Applied Social Sciences Law

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