The outlines of the punitive state in Brazil

Authors

  • Debora Regina Pastana

Keywords:

Controle penal, Encarceramento, Democracia, Estado punitivo, Criminal control, Imprisonment, Democracy, State Punitive

Abstract

This article reports analyses and conclusions formulated from comments about Brazilian Criminal Justice and that they had given to origin the thesis Criminal Justice in Current Brazil: Democratic Speech - Practical Authoritarian. The objective of this research was to reflect on the contemporary criminal politics, directed to magnifying of the repression and the continuous use of the imprisonment. Such politics, implemented in Brazil soon after the opening politics occurred in 1985, also adjusts the liberal project to it in course in the country and practically all the capitalist Occident.

Issue

Section

Violência e estado punitivo