The Psychology and Safety:

ways for the realization of public policies

Abstract

The article aims to address the contribution of psychology in the development of public security policies. Continuing a discussion started on the dissertation, entitled Do not look away - Study on the Public Discontinuity, Security and Vulnerability, which aimed to provide grants for the study of continuity or not of public policies Policies. Since then, the need to look back to Psychology and its interface with public policy, in particular the safety, envisioning possibilities and pathways that can overcome barriers, both to expand the dialogue on Public Security has emerged as to the understanding of psychology in this new context, and its role beyond the psychological reports. It was observed, in that dissertation, the strong influence of subjectivity in the development and success of programs, projects and preventive social security actions, reinforcing the importance of the establishment of social ties at work in areas with high homicide rates, ensuring social rights, saving lives and transforming local realities. It is from this place that objective thinking psychology as a science to add more in the search for alternatives, within a culture of peace and the new security paradigm.