#  Seminar Series on Afro-Latin American Studies with Poliana da Silva Ferreira 

 



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 **September 30, 2022** 

 12:00PM - 02:00PM EDT 

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 Speaker: **Poliana da Silva Ferreira**, Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School

 Moderator: **Yanilda González**, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

 In this episode of the seminar series, the conversation will address legal aspects of the lack of accountability of police officers involved in approaches that result in death, in Brazil. For this, the partial results of the research “Institutional design for accountability of the police that kills: possibilities and limits in racially unequal democracies” will be explored, which seeks to understand 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. The qualitative research project raises the following questions: what kind of institutional design is being adopted to control and hold accountable the police who kill? What are the points of approximation between Brazil and the United States on this issue? The theoretical key of institutional racism has proved to be useful to organize the literature and the empirical findings of the research regarding the practices and processes related to the shielding of the police who kill in both countries.

 **Poliana Ferreira** is PhD student at the São Paulo School of Law of the Getulio Vargas Foundation, she holds a Master's degree in Law and Development from the São Paulo School of Law of the Getulio Vargas Foundation. She is the director of Plataforma Justa, member of Fiscal Council of the Brazilian Network of Empirical Legal Studies, researcher at the Criminology Research Group of the State University of Bahia, and at the Crime and Penalty Study Center of the Getulio Vargas Foundation. She was a visiting researcher at the Université Catholique de Louvain, with the Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur la Déviance et la Pénalité, Belgium. She is the author the of book “Justiça e letalidade policial: responsabilidade jurídica e imunização da polícia que mata” (2021).

 **Yanilda María González** is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her research focuses on policing, state violence, and citizenship in democracy, examining how race, class, and other forms of inequality shape these processes. González’s book Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2020), studies the persistence of police forces as authoritarian enclaves in otherwise democratic states, demonstrating how ordinary democratic politics in unequal societies can both reproduce authoritarian policing and bring about rare moments of expansive reforms. Authoritarian Police in Democracy received the Gregory Luebbert Prize for Best Book in Comparative Politics from the American Political Science Association (2022), as well as the Donna Lee Van Cott Award for Best Book on Latin American Politics and Institutions from the Latin American Studies Association (2022). González received the Clarence Stone Scholar Award from the Urban and Local Politics Section of the American Political Science Association (2022). González received her PhD in Politics and Social Policy from Princeton University. Prior to joining HKS she was an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. González previously worked at a number of human rights organizations in the US and Argentina, including the New York Civil Liberties Union, ANDHES, and Equipo Latinoaméricano de Justicia y Género.

 *Presented in collaboration with [ALARI](https://alari.fas.harvard.edu/)*



 

 



 

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