Given the context in which the topic of corruption is among the subjects that have most occupied the public space of debate in Brazil since the turn of the millennium, this dissertation aims to identify the dominant ideas that permeated the decision-making process of designing Law no. 12,846, of August 1, 2013, subsequently called the Brazilian Anti-Corruption Law (LAC). Using the theoretical framework of neo-institutionalism, notably in its sociological approach, and with the help of Bourdieu's theoretical formulations on the dynamics of social structures, the main research findings suggest that the enactment of the Anti-Corruption Law essentially results from the country's adherence to the anti-corruption guidance advocated by multilateral organizations, despite the respective process having been aggravated by a political juncture of intense social unrest.

Public ombudsman offices are inserted in a highly complex and constantly changing environment. These units are closely involved in the provision of quality public services and public policies and need to constantly adapt to the environment to perform their activities appropriately. In this context, it is important to study the topic of Dynamic Capabilities, which aims to understand the performance of organizations inserted in dynamic environments and how they seek to renew their skills and reconfigure their resources, aiming to obtain a sustainable competitive advantage. In this way, the present study focuses not only on observing the phenomenon of dynamic capabilities in the public sector, a less common approach in the literature, but also provides an unprecedented observation of the phenomenon within the scope of ministerial Public Ombudsman Offices. To this end, actions related to Dynamic Capabilities adopted by the Ombudsman units and recorded in their annual management reports were identified and categorized, using as a reference the measurement scale of the component elements and organizational mechanisms for developing dynamic capabilities in organizations proposed by Zaluski et al. (2020). The scale, composed of 21 indicators, takes into account the component elements and organizational mechanisms proposed by Meirelles and Camargo (2014) based on three dimensions: behaviors and skills for change and innovation; search and innovation processes and routines; and learning and knowledge governance mechanisms. It also considers the theoretical construct based on Wang and Ahmed (2007), which establishes three component elements of Dynamic Capabilities: absorptive, adaptive and innovative capacity. The scale complementary uses the models of Zahra and George (2002), Akgün, Kestin and Byrne (2007), Staber and Sydow (2002) and Gibson and Birkinshaw (2004). The study methodology was based on qualitative analysis, of an exploratory and descriptive nature, using content analysis. 58 reports from 15 ministerial ombudsman offices were analyzed, covering the years 2019 to 2022. 343 actions were identified in the reports and categorized according to the scale indicators proposed by Zaluski et al. (2020) and in the end, a list was produced with 45 categories focused on the universe of Public Ombudsmen, as a breakdown of the indicators originally included in the measurement scale. The results showed the existence of actions adopted by the Ombudsman's Offices in practically all indicators proposed by Zaluski et al. (2020). This dissertation contributes to the understanding of the development of dynamic capabilities in organizations and offers reference material for Ombudsman units that seek ways to face dynamic environments in an organized manner, expanding the discussion on dynamic capabilities at the national level.

Inadequate assessment or lack of risk management become a notable source of risk for projects, and this circumstance is verified when analyzing the sharing and optimization of risk transfer between a given public agent and a private agent in public contracts. infrastructure provision. In public infrastructure works, there are occurrences (risks) that can result in an increase in costs, causing an impact on the management of public resources. Costs change, that is, they vary throughout the project life cycle, from the planning phase to final execution due to different factors. Cost variation can also be called excess cost or additional cost, being the difference between actual costs and estimated costs. Therefore, the present study aims to analyze the risks that influence the cost of public road infrastructure works contracted by the National Department of Transport Infrastructure - DNIT, under the differentiated regime of integrated contracting. As for the purposes, this research is considered exploratory and descriptive and as for the means, the research is bibliographic, documentary and case study. The results were the understanding of the process of analyzing contracts integrated in the DNIT, the identification of the most recurring risks in the pre-bidding stage and in the contractual execution stage, with the descriptive analysis of the sample of all contracts carried out in the Autarchy during the years from 2011 to 2023, with the construction of a criticality matrix (probability and impact) considering the occurrences (risks) that most influence the variation in project costs and presentation of an EAR Risk Analytical Structure, with the list of linked risks to each of the 9 hierarchical categories, with the projects category as the highlight.

The federative model of state organization seeks to reconcile autonomy and interdependence in relations between the different levels of government. To make them act in a coordinated and cooperative way, governments use mechanisms that encourage the participation of their members in national policies. This work analyzes the use of direct transfers of resources between federative units, as an instrument to induce federative cooperation. Law 13,756 (2018) made it mandatory to transfer resources from the National

Fund for Public Security to the states, via fund-to-fund modality, requiring the alignment of state planning with the guidelines established by the central government. In this sense, the present study aimed to verify how fund-to-fund resource transfers have contributed to federative Coordination and Cooperation in national public security. The research was exploratory in nature, using quantitative and qualitative methods. Subsidies were sought in the literature to understand aspects related to the implementation of intergovernmental public policies to be implemented at the state level, identifying works related to federalism and public policies. As an object of analysis, the decentralization of resources from the National Public Security Fund to the states were verified, before and after the obligatory fund-to-fund transfer, research was used on the adherence of state plans to the national public security plan and interviews were carried out with the national fund-to-fund transfer policy managers for public security. An analysis of the elements of coordination and cooperation present in the application plans prepared by the states was also carried out. The research results confirm the results of previous studies on the power of inducing fund-to-fund transfers in the cooperation and coordination of national policies, also for the area of public security. I found that the expansion of resources and the obligation to share them with the states favor or align state policies with the guidelines established by the Union, but that the interaction between bodies, organizations and members of society on the subject is still incipiente.

In 2022, it was found that the prison population reached an average of almost 700,000 prisoners in Brazil and, especially those guarded by federal prisons, accounted for a total of 482 prisoners. In view of the great power of organized groups, the main leaders are sent to the Federal Prison System (SPF) to serve their sentences. In 2009, complementing the framework of Federal Criminal Enforcement Agents, the public servants responsible for providing health care to prisoners joined the SPF, especially nurses and licensed practical nurse as subjects of this study. The work process, these professionals use a nursing theory and this research aims to analyze its applicability in the light of Kristen Swanson's Theory of Caring. In turn, to provide quality and efficient health care in penitentiaries, it becomes possible to describe the resources available in the health sectors of the five penitentiaries, according to the Theory of Resource-Based View (RBV). And yet, it is verified how the influence of resources and the provision of nursing care reflects on the quality of care for prisoners, based on the criteria adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO). This is an exploratory and descriptive research, carried out with nursing staff working in the health sectors of federal penitentiaries. Two essays were carried out from semi-structured scripts from November 2022 to February 2023. The analysis of the essays was performed using the theoretical saturation technique, Content Analysis and Comparative Qualitative Analysis (QCA). From this analysis, four items emerged: profile of professionals, identification of available resources, applicability of the Theory of Caring and quality of care. The results indicate that certain penitentiaries present successful or unsuccessful performances depending on the available resources; regardless of the condition of vulnerability of this prison population, it is possible to establish a Nursing Caring Model for prisioners within the scope of the SPF, following the precepts that involve care and; from the perception of licensed practical nurse, the value of the quality of care offered to prisoners. Therefore, a better investment in resources is needed to provide quality and efficient health care in all penitentiaries. Despite the conditions of incarceration, nurses need to be aware that their work process involves not only the procedures already applied in the SPF prison routine manuals, but also the systematization designed for the comprehensive care of these individuals.

The Courts of Accounts are public audit organizations present in all States of Brazil and have the function of supervising the application of public funds that are under their jurisdiction. Due to the modernization of public administration, the Courts of Accounts have been carrying out not only traditional compliance and financial audits, but also performance of organizations through performance audits. In this sense, this research aims to analyze the institutional logics present in performance audits of basic public education in the context of the Brazilian Courts of Accounts. To address the research question, a qualitative approach was used, triangulating interviews with 23 auditors from 17 Courts of Accounts, questionnaires and analysis of 74 audit reports carried out by 21 Courts of Accounts. The research findings show the coexistence of two logics in basic education operational audits: the managerial logic, represented by the auditor's role as a consultant, and the legalist logic, characterized by the auditor's role as a judge and public accountant. The research illustrates how institutional logics influence the role that the auditor decides to use. Finally, the research indicates that there is a possible relationship between the collaborative and communicative approach on the part of the auditor with the auditee and the greater influence of performance audits. However, research focused on the views and reactions of auditees needs to be done to better understand the interactions of auditor-auditee logics and their impact on performance auditing.

The general objective of this research is to identify predictive relationships between the variables political skill and leadership style on the performance of leaders in Brazilian public organizations, from the perspective of self-assessment. There is a wide range of studies on work performance and leadership styles, including validated instruments to measure these variables. However, the political skill variable is little explored, even more so in the context of the Brazilian public service. When it comes to relating these three variables, studies are still quite incipient in the context of public service. To carry out this study, a quantitative survey was carried out with people occupying commissioned positions or functions in the Brazilian public service. Data were collected using a specific form, made available electronically, using three instruments: Political Skill Inventory - IHP, the Leadership Styles Self-Assessment Scale - EAEL and the Work Performance Self-Assessment Scale - EADT. The data were analyzed through analysis of evidence of validity of the instruments used, as well as multiple regression analysis, with political skill and leadership style as independent variables and work performance as the dependent variable. The results demonstrated evidence of validity of the three instruments used (IHP, EAEL and EADT), as well as pointing to a positive predictive relationship between Factor 1 of the IHP (Apparent Sincerity), Factors 1 and 2 (Focus on Result and Focus on People) with the EADT Factor 1 (Job Performance).

Turnover can be associated with undesirable organizational impacts, such as loss of talent and increased costs with recruiting, selecting and training new employees. In this perspective, research will be carried out regarding turnover intention, which is pointed out as a predecessor of turnover in the literature. Previous studies have identified the need to expand research on turnover intentions in the Brazilian context and in the public sector context. The locus of the research is the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade), an organization of the Public Administration of the Federal Executive Branch that has challenges related to the turnover. The general objective of the research is to investigate whether organizational identification and leadership styles focused on people and focused on results can predict the turnover intention of Cade employees. One of the purposes is to provide inputs for the organization's preventive actions. To achieve the research objective, the phenomena were investigated through triangulation of quantitative and qualitative methods. Two stages of interviews were carried out to collect the perception of specialist regarding the intention of turnover at Cade. The first stage had two interviewees and the second with four. A quantitative stage with Cade servers was carried out, with data collection using a survey, composed of validated scales. 113 responses were obtained. The data were analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics, highlighting the use of multiple linear regression. The research results allowed us to conclude that organizational identification influenced turnover intentions at Cade, while people-focused and results-focused leadership styles did not. The variables area and employment relationship were also significant predecessors, so that employees in the middle area and Cade employees had greater influence on turnover intentions. Academic, practical and social contributions were observed. A booklet proposal for Cade managers was suggested. At the end, limitations of the research were highlighted and a research agenda was suggested.

The general aim of this research is to investigate how whistleblowing channels help to detect and investigate cases of corruption in Brazil. To this end, it has four specific objectives: (i) to describe the historical and political context in which the development of the whistleblowing channel as an instrument of social control took place in Brazil; (ii) to identify the regulatory models of whistleblowing channels found in the country; (iii) to investigate the consequences of the implementation of regulatory models at a national level; and (iv) to identify the capacity of whistleblowing channels to contribute to the detection and investigation of cases of corruption in Brazil. The research adopts a neoconstructivist approach to the concept of corruption, and uses a neostructuralist approach to analyze its causes and impacts in different fields. The historical and political process in which the whistleblowing channel developed in Brazil is analyzed from a neoinstitutionalist perspective, based on the literature of organizational isomorphism. Behavioral economics and social psychology were used to support the analysis of how these designs influence the behavior of whistleblowers. With a multi-method approach, documentary research and interviews were used, as well as the databases of the "National Mapping of Practices and Legislation in Whistleblower Protection and Incentives" (CGU, 2023), the Public Ombudsman Maturity Model (CGU, 2021) and the Fala.BR Platform. As a result, it was shown that the regulatory models for whistleblowing channels are related to the development of the organizational field of public ombudsmen, in which there was a process of isomorphism based on conformity to the design consolidated in the field. Focusing on information gathering and risk management, the model did not address fundamental questions for whistleblowers: the outcome of the investigation and protection against retaliation. It was also found that improving controls and information management tools at the same time reduces the dependence of the investigation areas on complaints as a means of detecting irregularities and creates a scenario for increased use of the complaints channel, which is not accompanied by a qualitative increase in its capacity to support the investigation of corruption cases.

Medium-Term Expenditure Frameworks (MTEFs) extend the budgetary focus from the short term to the medium term by defining multi-year limits for public expenses. The main aim is to promote fiscal discipline by controlling budget allocation for future funding possibilities, requiring recognition of the actual budgetary space available. This is to enable a more meticulous planning of public spending, aiming for a better allocation of public revenues. Based on budgetary theory and the theory of bounded rationality, this study analyzed the strategy of budget approval using MTEFs to understand its effectiveness in enhancing the rationality of the budgetary process and whether it could be applied to the Brazilian federal budget. To achieve this, a literature review on the subject was conducted, experiences of countries adopting the model were analyzed, and how it is perceived by international organizations promoting the practice was examined. The review indicated that almost all developed countries implement this system successfully, especially those that have been using it for a longer period, such as Sweden and Australia. However, in developing countries, the results were less satisfactory. Research findings highlighted the advantages of implementing the MTEF approach in national budgets but also underscored the need for several prerequisites for successful implementation. This practice proved to induce rationality in the budgetary process by shifting the decision-making from the implementation moment. Furthermore, it was noted that the Brazilian legal framework appears feasible for implementing this strategy. However, the format of the Brazilian budget planning was found unsuitable to meet the requirements of this model, especially concerning the necessary environment for this approach to yield the expected results, such as realistic budget and fiscal forecasts and political commitment to fulfilling the planned objectives.

The general objective of this research was to investigate the perception of middle-level bureaucrats about telework implemented in the National Penitentiary Department during the period of the pandemic resulting from Covid-19. The theoretical framework addressed BME, telework (internationally and in Brazil) and telework in the public service. It was a descriptive and qualitative research, with a transversal and empirical approach. Data collection included documental surveys and interviews obtained until theoretical saturation with fifteen BME randomly selected according to the hierarchical level and the board in which they worked. The interviews used a semi-structured script, used after a previous pilot test and supported by the theoretical framework, especially in Aderaldo, Aderaldo and Lima (2017), in Filardi, Castro and Zanini (2020) and in Wang et al. (2021). For data analysis, document analysis and content analysis were used, complemented by word clouds and mental maps. The analyzes were based on the theoretical foundation, emphasizing the concept of telework, advantages and disadvantages of telework, perspectives to which such advantages and disadvantages were linked, and maintenance of telework. As for the results, in general, the concept of teleworking was associated with the performance of activities remotely. 22 advantages and 12 disadvantages of teleworking were identified. Among the advantages are “decreased costs for the organization” and “increased productivity”, and among the disadvantages are “difficulty in supervising and coordinating work” and “professional isolation”. As for the perspectives, those of the “worker”, the “organization” and the “society” were identified. Although there are constraints, in general the evidence indicated favorable perceptions for the maintenance of teleworking at Depen. This work brings contributions on the perception of telework from the perspective of BME, and on the maintenance of telework implemented during the pandemic by public security agencies in the country.

Police action requires that its officers work in groups and with constant exchange of information and knowledge, which promotes the formation of networks of formal relationships. The understanding of the structure of these networks is still poorly explored by law enforcement agencies and academics. Thus, the present study aims to evaluate which structure of the operational police networks of the Federal Road Police (PRF) produces a higher performance in drug seizure with the use of intelligence knowledge. As a sample of this study, the structure of 32 Federal Highway Police stations was evaluated and its construction was based on the use of secondary data obtained through the police reports. For the evaluation of performance, indicators were constructed that evaluate both the use of intelligence knowledge and the participation of police officers in the seizure of drugs within their police station. The analyzes were performed with the construction of networks and their metrics, cluster analysis, multiple linear regression and ANOVA. The results indicate that the structure of hierarchical networks provides a better performance of intelligence information in drug seizure. However, when evaluating the relational structures of the actors, using the values of degree centrality, betweeness and closeness and Hub degree, it was found that they have a lesser influence than the structural aspects. In addition to the relational data, the length of service also showed no interference in the performance aimed at drug seizure

This research aimed to identify and understand the drivers and barriers present in the processes of innovation and organizational change in public security services, having the Federal Highway Police (PRF) as an empirical locus. To reach this objective, we look for (i) identify and describe the barriers to innovation processes in services originated in the PRF; (ii) identify and describe the drivers innovation processes in services originated in the PRF; and (iii) Identify and describe barriers to discontinued innovation processes in the PRF. The research is characterized as exploratory-descriptive, with a qualitative approach and was carried out in two stages of evidence collection, using secondary sources and primary evidence sources. In the first stage, a document analysis is carried out, where the innovations in services originated in the PRF, approved by experts as innovations, are described. In the second stage, semi-structured interviews are carried out with organizational actors involved in innovation and change processes. The results indicate a strong presence of internal drivers (i) leadership; (ii) entrepreneurship; and (iii) intangible resources. Among the external drivers, the main ones identified were (i) political environment; and (ii) technological advances. The main barrier is related to organizational issues, which include (i) resistance or lack of support from organizational actors; (ii) lack of skill, knowledge and experience; and (iii) ineffectiveness in managing the innovation process. Finally, an important barrier resulting from failure in communication processes to involve servers with innovation processes is also identified

The main objective of this work was to describe the perceptions about the 'Task Characteristics' of teleworkers in the Information and Communication Technology area- ICT at the Federal Institute of Acre - IFAC and the Federal University of Acre - UFAC. The theoretical reference included teleworking with a focus on the public sector, work design and, more specifically, the 'Task Characteristics'. A descriptive research was carried out with a predominantly quantitative approach. Questionnaires were applied to a sample of 41 administrative technicians in education in the ICT area, 22 of them from IFAC and the remaining 19 from UFAC. Complementarily, documents were collected on the ICT areas. The operationalization of the characteristics of the task considered 24 subcategories grouped into 6 categories (1. Autonomy in work planning, 2. Autonomy of Decision and Realization, 3. Task Variety, 4. Task Meaning, 5. Task Identification and 6. Work Feedback) and was based on the Work Design Questionnaire – WDQ, proposed by Morgeson and Humprey (2006) and validated for Brazil by Borges-Andrade (2019). The data treatment used descriptive and non-parametric inferential statistics, using residual analysis, complemented by document analysis. The main results indicated, in general, 57.72% of concordant perceptions. These perceptions differed for five categories, with the 'I totally agree' perception standing out for the category 'Task Variety'.There were differences between the perceptions on subcategories associated with four categories. In addition, there were differences between the perceptions of teleworkers from the ICT area of IFAC and UFAC on the category 'Decision and Realization Autonomy' and on two subcategories associated with this category. This research contributes to the study of the characteristics of the task of teleworkers in the ICT area during the pandemic context, brings reflections to managers regarding the categories and subcategories associated with the characteristics of the task, in the perception of teleworkers in this area, as well as evidences the possibility of application of the WDQ to ICT workers working in public higher education institutions in the country.

Understanding and implementing innovations, especially in the context of the public sector, creates opportunities to improve procurement management to achieve excellence in public procurement in terms of serving the population, as well as suppliers of goods and services. The objective of this research is to analyze the results of innovations in the public procurement process within the Brazilian government. Based on the literature that discusses innovation in the public sector proposed by the authors Bloch et al. (2009), Bloch (2011) and De Vries et al. (2016), a content analysis was carried out from interviews with managers and users of innovation, which revealed the opportunity to characterize the innovations developed by the Ministry of Economy in the public procurement process; identify barriers and facilitators to innovation, allowing a better understanding of the innovation value chain, passing through actors, practices and evidence of how public organizations and public services can be transformed in the area of public procurement. Furthermore, a bank of innovation indicators was created in the government procurement process, in order to enable the measurement of innovation performance in the context of the Ministry of Economy.

The present study aims to verify how the integration between the Budget Management and Strategic Planning adopted by the Federal Institute of Acre (IFAC) works, through which the budget situation in the period from 2018 to 2021, will be analyzed, to raise the needs and difficulties encountered. for the management of the institution for the integration of the budget with the institutional strategic planning during; to know the mechanisms that contribute to the distribution of the discretionary budget related to teaching, research and extension directed to the objectives of the institution's strategic map for the year 2022, in a transparent and efficient way, collaborating with the functionalities of the activities of this educational entity. For this, the general objective of this work is to examine how the budget reduction impacts the integration between the budget structure and the Strategic Planning of IFAC. From this point, four specific objectives were created, which are: collecting data on the distribution of resources with the diagnosis of the IFAC budget situation in the period 2020 to 2021; Know the practices and tools that managers use to manage the institutional budget integrated with Strategic Planning; To analyze, through an interview script, the perception of the institution's managers regarding the importance of the integration between the budget and the Strategic Planning; Identify which strategic objectives that work in teaching, research and extension, defined in the institution's Strategic Planning, suffer more or less impact with budget cuts and/or blockages. Themes on Institutionalism, Neo-institutionalism, Planning, Strategy, Strategic Planning, Public Budget and Governance were addressed. It is an applied research and case study, its approach has the characteristic of qualitative research with a typology of exploratory-descriptive studies. Its outlines are bibliographic research and action research in which the researcher assumes participatory intervention. Data were collected and analyzed through semi-structured interviews and document analysis of the institution on budget management and strategic planning. Five strategic objectives of the institution that are directly related to teaching, research and extension were highlighted, in which the performance of thirteen indicators were analyzed, their

relationship with the institution's budget, which of them are integrated with budget the management and the impacts that these indicators suffer with budget cuts.

Prison overcrowding is a perverse problem recognized for at least four decades in Brazil. Efforts made by the public administration to minimize this problem are observed. The National Penitentiary Department (DEPEN) has established public policies that address this problem. However, it seems that the focus of action to address the same problem changes as the interest groups in power change. However, there weren't studies that investigated why, apparently, sometimes the problem was overcrowding, then actions were sought to reduce incarceration, sometimes the problem was the shortage of vacancies, so the focus was on increasing vacancies. This alternation seems to occur as a cascade effect of the change of government leaders in the presidency of the republic. Given this, the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) was used to analyze the political narratives about prison overcrowding contained in the annual management reports, from 2007 to 2021, covering the Lula, Dilma, Temer and Bolsonaro governments. It was found that the ideological belief system (liberal and conservative) partly explains the differences between political preferences of vacancies creation and decrease in incarceration rate. It was also observed that all groups prefer to use narrative strategies that restrict the scope of the conflict, which may be due to the non-achievement of the outcomes proposed by both policies.

The efficient allocation of resources, in the face of a reality of budget constraint, has proved to be a challenge for many municipalities. The present study aimed to reveal the relative efficiency of municipalities in the northern region in the treatment of COVID-19, conceived as a Wicked problem. The northern region was chosen due to the chronic shortage of the network that culminated in episodes of lack of oxygen in the hospital network. The scope of the study comprised a total of 450 (four hundred and fifty) municipalities, and the empirical research was based on the Data Envelopment Analysis methodology to know the most efficient municipalities in relation to a set of selected inputs (inputs) and products (outputs). The results showed that only 20 (twenty) municipalities proved to be relatively efficient, which implies that only these showed an efficiency rate equal to 100% or maximum level of relative efficiency. All others showed a relative efficiency rate lower than this value, with 31 (thirty-one) municipalities being designed with a high degree of efficiency, 117 (one hundred and seventeen) with a good degree of efficiency, 249 (two hundred and forty-nine ) with a medium degree of efficiency, 33 (thirty-three) with a low degree of efficiency and no municipality was classified as inefficient. The study also revealed that there was no direct relationship between the amount of resources and the relative technical efficiency of health in the municipalities with the highest per capita value; in relation to the consolidated values, part of the municipalities that presented the highest amount fell within the maximum level of relative efficiency, high degree and good degree; locational aspects may have contributed to the achievement of efficiency and the population issue, initially may have been a hindrance when it came to small municipalities, however, greater detail on this subject is still necessary. It contributes to the research agenda on the subject by analyzing the relative efficiency against the profile of municipalities in the northern region.

This research comes from the need to study public health policies in the prison system and to focus on incarcerated drug addicts. To understand the obstacles on the formulation and imple-mentation of public policies that cover this population, the relationship between drugs and prison was analyzed using the Advocacy Coalition Framework’s (ACF) model. Under ACF, this work sought to identify the coalitions of an outlined subsystem considering the past 10 years (2012 to 2022). Content analysis was carried on official documents and speeches made by actors on the executive, legislative and judicial branches as well as members of the civil society interested in the matter. Besides the identification of coalitions, this research also sug-gests a belief system for each one of them, considering their deep core, policy core and instru-mental aspects. Among the outcomes, 5 advocacy coalitions were identified in the subsystem formed by their beliefs system, which are not necessarily antagonistic amongst themselves. Furthermore, results showed coalitions that consider health policies appear less frequently and have fewer engaged actors than coalitions that come from the public security and juridic appa-ratus logic. In that regard, findings indicate a plausible reason for the difficulty to implement public health policies for drug incarcerated addicts, by showing the scarcity and lack of strength of the coalition that supports this vision.

In the Brazilian penitentiary system, there is an expansion of criminal organizations inside prisons, as well as the difficulty of controlling the growth and emergence of new organizations. This fact can be derived from the formation and development of networks of relationships between prisoners, notably, in the prison context. Thus, the present study aims to understand the networks of social relationships of prisoners in the Federal Penitentiary in Brasília. For this, the relationship networks of the 29 prisoners were mapped through secondary data recorded in the administrative system of the Federal Penitentiary, whose mapping made it possible to describe them through the social network analysis method (ARS), using R and i2 software. Furthermore, to assess the perception of the servers about the penitentiary structure and the interaction of the prisoners, a questionnaire was used, in which the text content was treated through the content analysis method and with the use of the Iramuteq software. So, the main results show the incidence of six clusters, two of which are monopolized by prisoners. In addition, it appears that few prisoners have greater centrality of degree and intermediation, a fact that places them in a strategic position in the network, however, makes them more vulnerable to being detected by security agencies. The methodological contributions are in the structure of data collection and treatment of this study, which can be replicated in prisons in other regions and the theoretical contributions contribute to filling the gap in empirical studies that deal with the structure of the prison network, impacting on the understanding of the social relations of prisoners and in the decision-making of public managers. Finally, the contributions of this research to management reach the definition of factors that may have implications for the development of practices in the administration of penitentiaries, in the practices of inmate interactions and in the design of institutional policies and strategies for prisons at the federal and state levels

Domestic violence and feminicide are complex and structural phenomena in society, causing several impacts on public security and, therefore, an important challenge to be faced for its prevention and control. In this type of violence, there is no distinction of social class or cultural, religious or educational background, because it affects women only because of their feminine condition, even configuring a public health problem. Public administration has been going through advances and transformations in the search for new management models to achieve its goals and offer a more effective service to the population. In this context, knowledge management (KM) emerges as a strategy to reach institutional objectives and improve organizational management, providing changes in public policies, processes, and functions. This study is part of the knowledge management area, and its objective was to evaluate the degree of maturity of knowledge management in the Civilian Police of the Federal District in relation to the confrontation of domestic violence against women. The methodological procedures were of quantitative approach, with descriptive purpose, whose data collection is based on an adapted questionnaire, used to measure the development of the maturity stage of knowledge management in the PCDF (Civil Police of Federal District) and to verify the influence relationship of the knowledge management criteria in this public security institution. The data collected allowed us to individualize the intensity of knowledge management initiatives internally perpetrated at the PCDF. The results obtained evidence that the organization, despite not having a structured KM program, is in the introductory stage of the knowledge management maturity degree according to Batista's (2012) classification. Furthermore, it was also identified that the criterion "People" is the one that presented the lowest scores in the investigated police stations, revealing that investment in people management, can provide better results in the implementation of a knowledge management plan in the organization. The results of the multiple regression showed that the variables leadership, processes and people are the ones that positively influenced the results of KM. This evaluation can contribute for managers to recognize knowledge as an essential resource, and insert KM in the strategic planning of PCDF, with the implementation of actions for a more effective knowledge management, in order to improve the management of the organization and its processes in general, for the benefit of society and in particular for the protection of women.