Police: Professional Identity and Social Representations in Brazil

It’s also based in the hypothesis that a possible lack of identity (without defining an identity for themselves, the policemen could be given themselves a subordinated identity that comes from other people in society) could have as en effect some violent practices, in a kind of answer to what police think the population, or parts of it, could wait from them. The research has tried to find out if this gap (lack of identity) would attain in the same way both groups of policemen, the ones in the civil police and those who are in the military police. A gap that is possibly working as a barrier to avoid the identity construction or if, on the contrary, it would attain differently the members of the two groups. In this sense, the investigation was to find out the existence of a possible difference between civil police and military police and the way both groups construct that difference. Would the gap (above mentioned) be responsible for deteriorated or submissive identities, formed by negatives contents (the misuse of the physique force or violence would be the most evident) used as usual forms of (police) action and reaction to what he would consider as the order transgression? Would the policeman have a tendency to define himself based on what he supposes the society expects from him, he designs the process of building an identity based on what someone else, besides himself, asks from him, in terms of efficiency, rapidity and punishment, as necessary conditions to reestablish order, even though this may cost the non-submission to the law?