The City and the Public Security: In Order to Understand the Present, a Return to the Past

From the historical perspective of new organizational formats in the area of public security - especially after the promulgation of the Federal Constitution of 1988 -, which align with the search for new forms of management of urban violence, the main purpose of this article is to understand the city's inclusion process in the debates on the management of public security policies in the current Brazilian context. Carrying out a literature search, through a qualitative approach, will seek - from understanding the phenomenon from a historical perspective - to introduce paradigms named National Security, Public Safety and Citizen Security, which are directly related to the central theme