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Cyberspace is no longer a marginal or merely instrumental space; it has become a central dimension of contemporary crime, affecting the definition of legally protected interests, the shaping of criminal offenses, the methods of criminal investigation and the very foundations of due process of law. The book starts from the premise that tackling crime in cyberspace cannot be understood merely as a technological issue, but as a complex legal and criminal phenomenon that requires an integrated reading of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Criminology, Criminal Policy and Computer Science. The result is a cohesive work that reflects the commitment of the National Police Academy (ANP) to producing applied, critical knowledge aligned with the real challenges of public security in a network society.

The work with which ANP Editora began its publishing activity, in 2021, under the direction of Stenio Santos Sousa as Responsible Editor and Executive Council Member. The Colombian author Jairo Enrique Suárez Alvarez — a member of the editorial board of the Revista Brasileira de Ciências Policiais — argues, over sixteen chapters, that police power is the core concept for understanding the role of the modern State in matters of public security, and that the rule of law must develop its own science: police science, conceived as a new social science of the State whose purpose is peaceful coexistence. The book traces the old police science of Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi, its Latin American continuation in Enrique Fentanes and the Colombian tradition, and closes with the ontological, teleological, gnoseological and methodological foundations of the field. Foreword by Eliomar da Silva Pereira.

A reference publication developed within the renowned InternetLab International Congress. The chapter analyzes the boundaries between the investigative powers of the State and citizens’ fundamental guarantees in the collection of digital evidence. It discusses the limits of remote access to devices, direct requests to transnational platforms, and the recognition of the right to a fair criminal investigation guided by legality.

A pioneering doctrinal and operational study on moving beyond the strictly spatial concept of "domicile" and the physical seizure of hard drives. The chapter sets out the technical and legal requirements for virtual search and seizure on cloud computing servers, real-time preservation (expedited preservation), and the limits of court orders addressed to national and international service providers.

A detailed analysis of the operational vectors, criminal structures and illicit money flows in electronic bank fraud in Brazil. It discusses social engineering, banking malware (trojans), money mules and the urgent need for agile coordination between the federal judicial police and financial institutions for precautionary freezing and asset recovery.

Study published in the Revista Brasileira de Ciências Policiais (Brazilian Journal of Police Sciences) examining the legal and functional nature of Police Intelligence. It shows that intelligence activity is not limited to data collection, but constitutes a doctrinally oriented tool for realizing the fundamental right to public security, operating in strict observance of the constitutional boundaries of legality and accountability.

A defense and systematization of the Evidence-Based Policing paradigm in the work of Brazilian police forces, published in the Revista Brasileira de Ciências Policiais (Brazilian Journal of Police Sciences). The author proposes moving beyond intuitive empiricism in favor of methodological rigor, scientific impact evaluation, quantitative measurement of crime and decision-making grounded in replicable data.

Essay, published in the Revista Brasileira de Ciências Policiais (Brazilian Journal of Police Sciences), that diagnoses the sudden migration of social relations to the virtual ecosystem during global systemic crises. It analyzes the surge in digital threats (phishing, social benefit fraud, attacks on hospitals) and the decisive role of forensic technology and real-time cooperation in ensuring the continuity of security as an essential service.

An in-depth doctrinal examination of the criminal offense introduced into the Child and Adolescent Statute (ECA) for the possession and storage of child and adolescent pornography in digital media. The author confronts the legislative technique with Günther Jakobs’s theory of Enemy Criminal Law, inquiring whether the criminalization of preparatory acts and of mere possession violates the principles of harm, culpability and offensiveness in a democratic State governed by the rule of law.

A foundational article, published in the Revista Brasileira de Ciências Policiais (Brazilian Journal of Police Sciences), on the institutional design and functional autonomy of the Federal judicial police under the 1988 constitutional order. It shows that republican efficiency in combating organized crime and corruption requires organic guarantees of investigative impartiality, protection against improper political interference and strict adherence to democratic legality.

Lecture and academic paper presented at the COPEDEM 2025 Congress (Colégio Permanente de Diretores de Escolas Estaduais da Magistratura, the Permanent Council of Directors of State Judicial Schools) in Rio de Janeiro. The work outlines the profound transformations in criminal imputation arising from the advance of autonomous artificial intelligence systems, addressing the liability of developers, algorithmic bias in criminal decisions and new horizons for the protection of digital legal interests.

A pioneering study on the legal nature of the collection of genetic profiles in the course of criminal investigation. It analyzes the innovations introduced by Law 12,654/2012 and the debates over its constitutionality, contrasting the purpose of mere criminal identification with that of an autonomous means of evidence, from the perspective of human dignity and the principle of nemo tenetur se detegere.

Scientific work that received an award in the Scientific Article Competition of the 6th National Congress of Federal Police Delegates (VI CNDPF). The author argues for the ontological and normative existence of the principle of prior criminal investigation in the accusatory criminal procedure system, showing how the police investigation (inquérito policial) serves as a filter against reckless accusations and a safeguard of the citizen’s status dignitatis.

An editorial that reflects on the epistemological development of the Police Sciences in Brazil and the transition to rigorous methods of inquiry, highlighting the transformative impact of academic research on the modernization of public security institutions and on the improvement of republican governance.

The editorial approaches police science as a constitutive part of a liquid world, in the sense advanced by Zygmunt Bauman, reflecting on urban transformations, the role of the contemporary State, and the pressing need to ground security practices in empirical evidence and democratic safeguards.

An in-depth interview with the political scientist and Brazilianist Anthony W. Pereira, director of the Brazil Institute at King’s College London. It discusses the state of the art of research in public security and police sciences in Brazil and the United Kingdom, mechanisms of democratic control, accountability, and the dilemmas of the militarization of security.

Celebrating 10 years of uninterrupted publication of the RBCP, the Revista Brasileira de Ciências Policiais (Brazilian Journal of Police Sciences), by the Escola Superior de Polícia (2010–2019), this editorial reflects on the historical commitment of the Federal Police to scientific research and on the dialectic between the containment of violence and the uncompromising defense of constitutional guarantees.

Opening Volume 11 of the RBCP, the Revista Brasileira de Ciências Policiais (Brazilian Journal of Police Sciences), the editorial projects the trajectory of the journal and of police research into the 2020s, emphasizing the relevance of scientific evidence, the new frontiers of technological crime, and the role of the Escola Superior de Polícia at the forefront of public security.

Selected by the editors of Revista Jus Navigandi as an Editors’ Pick, the article starts from the 2005 Federal Police operations that reached politicians and the economic elite, such as Narciso, Cevada and Confraria, and from the criticism that accompanied them in the context of the Correios Parliamentary Inquiry Committee (CPI dos Correios), in order to address the suspicion that the institution served the interests of the government. The author, then a Federal Police Delegate and a graduate student in Criminal Sciences, argues for the legality of the investigative instruments employed and the qualifications of the personnel trained by the Academia Nacional de Polícia (National Police Academy), and concludes in favor of creating a body separate from the Federal Executive, with express constitutional guarantees for Federal Police Delegates, in particular functional independence and irremovability.

A text derived from the monograph concluding the Specialization in Criminal Sciences (UNAMA/UVB/Rede LFG), published in the inaugural issue of Revista Criminal: ensaios sobre a atividade policial. The essay examines the possibilities and scope of the preliminary criminal investigation and its influence on criminal proceedings, starting from the divergences in legal scholarship and case law on the special forum by prerogative of office (foro por prerrogativa de função) during the police investigation (inquérito policial): whether the prerogative should be restricted to criminal proceedings and whether the police authority may open the investigation without prior authorization from the competent court. It concludes that the weak point of the Brazilian model lies not in the separation between investigating, prosecuting and judging, but in the lack of guarantees for police authorities and of a defined constitutional place for the judicial police, which should have full autonomy from the Executive Branch, among the functions essential to Justice.

Brazil edition of the annual journal of the Mercosur Police Training Coordination Center (CCCP), in Portuguese and Spanish, marking thirty years of Mercosur and gathering regional police experiences with training during the Covid-19 pandemic. The dossier presents reports from Argentina and Paraguay; the articles address international human trafficking, forensic genetics in transnational investigations, fraudulent identity documents, arms trafficking and the investigation of complex offences; the issue closes with two news items and an interview with the Ecuadorian National Police. Stenio Santos Sousa signs the masthead as Editor-in-Chief.

Issue of the Federal Police scientific journal published on 09/11/2018, with 10 texts (sections: Expediente e Editorial, Artigos). Responsible Editor: Stenio Santos Sousa.

Issue of the Federal Police scientific journal published on 18/06/2019, with 9 texts (sections: Expediente e Editorial, Artigos). Responsible Editor: Stenio Santos Sousa.

Issue of the Federal Police scientific journal published on 04/10/2019, with 10 texts (sections: Expediente e Editorial, Dossiê, Artigos). Responsible Editor: Stenio Santos Sousa.

Issue of the Federal Police scientific journal published on 08/01/2020, with 10 texts (sections: Expediente e Editorial, Dossiê, Artigos). Responsible Editor: Stenio Santos Sousa.

Issue of the Federal Police scientific journal published on 12/02/2020, with 10 texts (sections: Expediente e Editorial, Dossiê, Artigos). Theme (original language): Ciências Policiais e Política Criminal. Responsible Editor: Stenio Santos Sousa.

Issue of the Federal Police scientific journal published on 27/05/2020, with 12 texts (sections: Expediente e Editorial, Dossiê, Artigos, Entrevistas). Theme (original language): Bancos de Dados Multi-Biométricos e Criminalidade. Responsible Editor: Stenio Santos Sousa.

Issue of the Federal Police scientific journal published on 30/09/2020, with 13 texts (sections: Expediente e Editorial, Dossiê, Artigos). Theme (original language): A Perícia Criminal como instrumento de promoção dos direitos humanos. Responsible Editor: Stenio Santos Sousa.

Issue of the Federal Police scientific journal published on 26/01/2021, with 14 texts (sections: Expediente e Editorial, Artigos). General Editor: Stenio Santos Sousa.

Issue of the Federal Police scientific journal published on 31/05/2021, with 13 texts (sections: Expediente e Editorial, Dossiê, Artigos). Theme (original language): Investigação criminal e novas tecnologias para obtenção de prova. General Editor: Stenio Santos Sousa.

Issue of the Federal Police scientific journal published on 30/09/2021, with 12 texts (sections: Expediente e Editorial, Dossiê, Artigos). Theme (original language): Recuperación de activos: garantizar que el delito no resulte provechoso (“crime doesn´t pay”). General Editor: Stenio Santos Sousa.

Issue of the Federal Police scientific journal published on 31/01/2022, with 14 texts (sections: Expediente e Editorial, Dossiê, Artigos). Theme (original language): Os profissionais de segurança pública como sujeitos de direitos: políticas públicas, qualidade de vida e democracia. General Editor: Stenio Santos Sousa.

Issue of the Federal Police scientific journal published on 22/03/2022, with 14 texts (sections: Expediente e Editorial, Dossiê). Theme (original language): Ciencia Policial, Inteligencia Policial y Crimen Organizado. General Editor: Stenio Santos Sousa.

Issue of the Federal Police scientific journal published on 31/05/2022, with 13 texts (sections: Expediente e Editorial, Dossiê, Artigos). Theme (original language): Direito Penal Ambiental. General Editor: Stenio Santos Sousa.

Issue of the Federal Police scientific journal published on 04/10/2022, with 13 texts (sections: Expediente e Editorial, Dossiê, Artigos). Theme (original language): Psicologia de Polícia. General Editor: Stenio Santos Sousa.

Issue of the Federal Police scientific journal published on 31/01/2023, with 17 texts (sections: Expediente e Editorial, Dossiê, Artigos, Entrevistas). Theme (original language): Governança, Gestão e Inovação em Segurança Pública. General Editor: Stenio Santos Sousa.

Issue of the Federal Police scientific journal published on 31/05/2023, with 15 texts (sections: Expediente e Editorial, Dossiê, Artigos). Theme (original language): A Atividade de Inteligência Policial enquanto Instrumento de Realização do Direito Fundamental à Segurança Pública. General Editor: Stenio Santos Sousa.