Short Circuit: Electronic Monitoring and the Crisis of the Brazilian Prison System

by Ricardo Urquizas Campello, Claudio Altenhain (Translator), Sebastian Nascimento (Translator)

Overview

Drawing upon both ethnographic research and genealogical analysis, this book represents the first in-depth scientific analysis of criminal offenders’ electronic monitoring (EM) in Latin America’s largest country. It focuses on three empirical axes: 1) the implementation of EM policies against the backdrop of Brazil’s collapsing carceral system; 2) the discourses and rationalities which undergird the deployment of EM; and 3) the effects of EM upon convicts moving back and forth between penal institutions and urban spaces governed by armed militias, criminal gangs, and abusive police forces.

The book is ideal for researchers and practitioners concerned with the fields of criminal justice and public security all over the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031218590
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	01/30/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	919 KB

About the Author

Ricardo Urquizas Campello earned his degree from the Graduate Program in Sociology of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP), with a grant from the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP). He completed a Doctoral Internship at the Centre de recherches Sociologiques sur le Droit et les Institutions Pénales (CESDIP), with a FAPESP BEPE grant. He holds a Master in Social Sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC/SP), having received a scholarship from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). In his studies, he develops research on current modulations of control and punishment, penal and prison system, electronic monitoring, and forensic DNA databanks.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Short circuit.- Lines of emergence.- Diagrammatic Compositions.- Converging Enunciations.- Out of control.- Afterword.- Index.