SEGURANÇA PÚBLICA EM PEQUENAS CIDADES DO NORTE DO PARANÁ / PUBLIC SECURITY IN SMALL TOWNS OF NORTHERN PARANA

The article contemplates some aspects of the research carried out next to the PhD course of the Postgraduate Program of the State University of Maringa (UEM) and aims to address public safety in the small cities of the North of the State of Paraná. In this paper, municipal expenditures and homicide rates were analyzed. The procedures a based on bibliographical and secondary data, with municipal expenditures by the Paraná Institute for Economic and Social Development (Ipardes) and homicide rates constructed from Datasus, the Mortality Information System (SIM), and the Ministry of Health of the Federal Government. The results confirm the occurrence of occurrences that generate insecurity in small cities. Despite this, little public municipal investment was observed with public safety, collaborating with the perspective that the number of inhabitants does not define whether the city is safe or not to live.