The helpless defense: Notes on the role of Brazilian public defenders in sentence enforcement proceedings

Godoi, Rafael

doi:10.1007/s10611-022-10056-9

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“…Not only have homicide rates increased in every Latin American country since the 1980s (Briceño-León & Zubillaga, 2002), but since the 2000s, the continent became the only region in the world where lethal violence increased without officially being at war (Auyero & Sobering, 2017, p. 2). On the one hand, historically weak penal bureaucracies have undermined state authorities' ability to overtake the strong administrative influence of other armed actors in many regions; on the other, state authorities themselves benefit personally, economically and politically from the clientelistic networks such conditions make possible (Arias, 2006;Glenny, 2010;Koonings & Kruijt, 2005;Müller, 2018). Instead of conceptualizing this reality as evidence of "failed" states, scholarship shows how it is the nature of these alliances, interactions and negotiations among political elites, state authorities and a range of non-state actors that reproduces these violent social orders (Moncada, 2016;Müller, 2018, p. 175;Pansters, 2012).…”

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“…judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys), their subjective perspectives and interests, interactional dynamics and the varied constraints within which they work. The workings of ground level court processes have remained a “black box” for centuries in Latin America; yet recent work has advanced research on court actors in different local contexts (Arrigiada, 2023; Ciocchini, 2014; Godoi, 2023; Ribeiro & Fondevila, 2023). Further in‐depth case studies and comparative analyses (see also Ciocchini, 2017) of these court actors and processes, including through in‐depth ethnographic work, are crucial to understanding the causes and consequences of practical penal court reforms underway across the region.…”

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Penal state power in Latin America: Cases, concepts and questions for the political sociology of penality

Santos

2024

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Examining penality across different regions and periods of time allows us to develop both a robust empirical imaginary and conceptual understanding of the commonalities and variation in how penal state power operates. In this article I elaborate key dimensions of penality in contemporary Latin America. Since the late 20th century, Latin American countries have undergone economic and political transformations with profound effects for the organization of their societies and the features and implications of penal state power. First, I situate research on penal state practices in Latin American countries within the broader dynamics of violence and social conflict across the region. Second, I review scholarship on the relationship between the features of penal state policies and reform in the region and the transformative, procedural and cultural dimensions of democracy. Third, I describe initiatives to expand state capacities to incarcerate criminalized people at an unprecedented scale and clarify the relationship of carceral administration to social order and political legitimacy across Latin America. I then conclude by elaborating how penality in Latin America contributes to our broader understanding of the relationship between penal power, state authority, and inequality; and I highlight three lines of inquiry for future research.

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Section: Violence Social Conflict and Penalitymentioning

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Section: Future Inquiries For the Political Sociology Of Penalitymentioning

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Penal state power in Latin America: Cases, concepts and questions for the political sociology of penality

Santos

2024

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“…Para uma análise pormenorizada das diversas formas de atuação de defensores públicos no âmbito da execução penal, verGodoi (2023).19 Na reforma penal que estabeleceu o direito a remição por estudo, em 2011, também se estabeleceu o entendimento de que os dias remidos equivalem a pena cumprida e não a uma redução da pena a cumprir. Como mostraChies (2008), antes disso, as disputas pela capitalização do tempo na prisão também se davam sobre essa questão.20 A Lei de Execução Penal (LEP) estabelecia originalmente o prazo de cumprimento de 1/6 da pena para acessar a progressão de regime.…”

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Norte, atalho e armadilha: notas sobre a remição de pena por trabalho e estudo em Salvador e no Rio de Janeiro

Fernandes,

Godoi,

Matos

2023

Dilemas, Rev. Estud. Conflito Controle Soc.

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Trata-se de pesquisa qualitativa realizada com processos judiciais de execução penal que analisa como os atores judiciais e penitenciários articulam discursos sobre trabalho e educação nas prisões brasileiras. A pesquisa tem por objetivo perceber as dinâmicas suscitadas pela remição da pena através dessas atividades. Considerando que os pedidos de remição ocupam um lugar privilegiado para análise das dinâmicas de governo e gestão do fluxo prisional, identificou-se ambivalências entre a centralidade do ideal ressocializador, como organizador das interações entre os atores, e o deslocamento de trabalho e educação, como operadores burocráticos do fluxo da execução.Palavras-chave: prisão, execução penal, remição, ressocialização, fluxo North, shortcut, and trap: Notes on good time credits of penalty for work and study in Salvador and Rio de Janeiro This is qualitative research carried out with judicial processes of criminal execution which analyzes how judicial and penitentiary actors articulate the discourses on work and education in contemporary Brazilian prisons. This research aims to perceive the dynamics raised by good time credits from these activities. Considering that these credit requests represent a privileged place for analyzing the dynamics of government and bureaucratic management of the prison flow, important ambivalences were identified between the centrality of the rehabilitative ideal, as an organizer of the interactions between the actors, and the displacement of work and education as bureaucratic operators of the criminal execution flow.

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The helpless defense: Notes on the role of Brazilian public defenders in sentence enforcement proceedings

Cited by 2 publications

References 19 publications

Penal state power in Latin America: Cases, concepts and questions for the political sociology of penality

Penal state power in Latin America: Cases, concepts and questions for the political sociology of penality

Norte, atalho e armadilha: notas sobre a remição de pena por trabalho e estudo em Salvador e no Rio de Janeiro

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