Incarceration and structural racism in Latin America and Brazil

Authors

  • Rosilene Marques Sobrinho de França Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47456/argumentum.v14i3.38514

Abstract

The work analyzes the process of implementation of prisons and the role played by prison in the Brazilian and Latin American historical trajectory, with reflections on structural racism and its consequences for the poor, black and peripheral population. The methodology consisted of a bibliographical and documental study. The results showed that there is a paradox and also an incisive articulation between incarceration, structural racism and the resurgence of criminal legislation and criminal procedure in Latin America and Brazil, since at the time when a list of rights were formally conquered, from the redemocratization processes, penal selectivity, punitivism and the war on drugs presented a perspective of mass incarceration, as a form of social control of the poor, black population living in urban peripheries today.

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Author Biography

Rosilene Marques Sobrinho de França, Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI)

Assistente Social. Doutora em políticas públicas. Pós-doutoranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Serviço Social da Escola de Humanidades da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). Professora doutora do Departamento de Serviço Social e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Políticas Públicas da Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI, Teresina, Brasil).

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Published

29-12-2022

How to Cite

França, R. M. S. de. (2022). Incarceration and structural racism in Latin America and Brazil. Argumentum, 14(3), 119–136. https://doi.org/10.47456/argumentum.v14i3.38514

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 3 (2022): Trabalho, emprego e renda: as condições de vida de trabalhadoras e trabalhadores em tempos de domínio tecnológico na produção

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Temas Livres

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