A criminologia no Brasil ou como tratar desigualmente os desiguais

In this article we discuss how the ideas of Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) and his followers were incorporated into the intellectual debate in Brazil in the late 19(th) and early 20(th) centuries. By specifically analyzing the intellectual production of Brazilian legal scholars and jurists of the time - who drew on ideas from criminology to conceive Brazilian society and to propose legal and institutional reforms - we attempt to demonstrate how these ideas contributed to the elaboration of differentiated forms of legal and penal treatment for certain segments of the population.

Justiça penal autoritária e consolidação do estado punitivo no Brasil

The Brazilian democratic transition, still underway today, has run up against enormous difficulty in incorporating penal action. Or, put in yet stronger terms, we could say that the boundaries of democratization processes, delineated through the action of that sector of the State, reveal the possibility that the juridical field remains immune to democratizing change. Although prevailing discourse among law professionals asserts that Penal Justice is undergoing democratization, what we have observed in practice is a strong resistance within the juridical field to assuming political responsibilities within the consolidation of democracy. This article reports analyses and conclusions formulated through observation of the Brazilian penal justice system that gave origin to the thesis entitled Penal Justice in Brazil today: democratic discourse, authoritarian practice. The research sought to reflect on contemporary criminal justice policy, which has been guided by the widening of repression and the continued use of incarceration. Such policy, carried out in Brazil since the beginning of the 1985 political opening has adjusted itself to the liberal project that is also currently underway in the country, as well as in almost the entire Western capitalist world. As we can observe, Penal Justice, even during the execution of sentences, operates in authoritarian and exclusive ways, suppressing the rights guaranteed by law to those who have been sentenced and adopting extremely repressive forms as demonstrated by the extremely sparse benefits that it concedes. Thus, in Brazil, criminality has generally been responded through severe sentences, reflected in the absence of guarantees of constitutional rights and ample recourse to incarceration. In this vein, our contemporary democratic governments have frequently adopted a punitive stance that seeks to reaffirm the State's aptitudes for punishing and controlling criminality. © 2009 Revista de Sociologia e Política.

Crime e loucura: as relações entre a medicina e justiça penal no Rio de Janeiro (1830-1903)

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Apontamentos sobre a história constitutiva dos saberes crimino-penais

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Ensino Jurídico no Brasil: perpetuando o positivismo científico e consolidando o autoritarismo no controle penal

Este artigo reporta análises e conclusões formuladas a partir de observações sobre a Justiça Penal brasileira e que deram origem a tese intitulada “Justiça Penal no Brasil Atual: Discurso democrático – prática autoritária”. Focalizando especificamente o ensino jurídico nacional, este texto procura associar a manutenção do autoritarismo no controle penal à tradição positivista da ciência jurídica nacional.

Notas sobre o uso de documentos judiciais como fonte de pesquisa histórica

Este artigo visa a apresentar algumas considerações acerca do uso dos arquivos da justiça criminal (processos-crime) e da documentação policial como fonte histórica. Apresentamos argumentos de alguns pesquisadores que se debruçaram sobre o tema, a partir de perspectivas teórico-metodológicas variadas. É também objetivo do presente trabalho analisar as idiossincrasias discursivas no momento da produção originária dos documentos judiciais, além de indicar algumas peculiaridades do uso dos documentos policiais.

Os contornos do Estado punitivo no Brasil

Este artigo reporta análises e conclusões formuladas a partir de observações sobre a Justiça Penal brasileira e que deram origem à tese intitulada Justiça Penal no Brasil atual: discurso democrático – prática autoritária. O objetivo desta pesquisa foi o de refletir sobre a política criminal contemporânea, voltada à ampliação da repressão e ao uso contínuo do encarceramento. Tal política, implementada no Brasil logo após a abertura política ocorrida em 1985, ajusta-se ao projeto liberal em curso no país e também em praticamente todo o Ocidente capitalista.

SAV IX: muito além dos muros do CSM/MM

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O papel da escola no processo de formação de sujeitos sociais em situação prisional

Since the beginning of the first prisions, they were proposed to solely for custody of offenders while waiting for capital punishment. With the evolution of the society, also evolves to the form of the punishment of convicts, going to be adopted custodial sentences instead of tortured bodies, then came up a greater concern with the most suitable sites for this new purpose. This study aim to reflect and analyze the relationship between education and rehabilitation in the Brazilian criminal justice system, aiming to give the efficiency of these programs in the country and the emergence of the first forms of punishment and deprivation of liberty, presupposing the role that education presents in the social reintegration process, in a situation of deprivation of liberty and the existing public policies. Characterize and show the attempts made by the state of São Paulo in accomplishing new models of prisons, which since 2000 are called resocialization centers representing this new structure and proposed social work in relation to so-called traditional prisons