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Prisões Latino Americanas (Latin American Prisons)

2016; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

1556-5068

Sacha Darke, Maria Lúcia Karam,

Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance

Portuguese Abstract: Esse capitulo tem como co-autores criminologos do Reino Unido e do Brasil; o primeiro e um dos poucos pesquisadores do Norte familiarizados com a literatura latino-americana sobre prisoes e que desenvolveram pesquisas in loco. A seu turno, a segunda autora se inclui no tambem relativamente pequeno clube de pesquisadores latino-americanos sobre prisoes com publicacoes em ingles. Os autores colaboraram anteriormente na publicacao de dois artigos sobre prisoes brasileiras (Darke 2014a; Darke e Karam 2012). Agora, ampliam seu objeto de analise, explorando o que veem como aspectos-chave das prisoes e da vida prisional na America Latina como um todo. Juntamente com as edicoes especiais recentemente produzidas por Global Prisons Research Network (Focaal 2014), Cheliotis (South Atlantic Quarterly 2014), e Hathazy e Muller (Crime, Law and Social Change 2014), esperamos dar uma contribuicao significativa para a reducao das lacunas do conhecimento academico no hemisferio norte sobre as prisoes latino-americanas. Atentos a nossa audiencia alvo, onde possivel, citamos trabalhos de estudiosos sobre prisoes latino-americanas, publicados ou traduzidos para o ingles. Ate onde temos noticia, alem de Ungar e Magaloni (Ungar 2003; Ungar e Magaloni 2009) somos os primeiros cientistas sociais a produzir tal analise regional em qualquer lingua.English Abstract: This chapter is co-authored by criminologists from the United Kingdom and Brazil. The first named author is one of just a handful of Northern researchers to have familiarised themselves with Latin American prisons literature and conducted fieldwork in Latin American prisons. The second named author similarly joins a relatively small club of Latin American prison researchers to have published in English. The authors have previously collaborated in publishing two articles on Brazilian prisons (Darke 2014a; Darke and Karam 2012). Here we broaden our object of analysis and explore what we perceive to be the key features of prisons and prison life in Latin America as a whole. Alongside our more general aim to provide an overview of prisons and prison life, in this chapter we draw particular attention to two paradigms of globalised crime control that quite clearly have particular resonance in Latin America: those of criminal justice militarisation and, quite the opposite of rehabilitation, securitisation of the prison environment. In the first half of the chapter we chart the extraordinary rise in Latin American prison populations over the past two decades, as well as deteriorating prison conditions, and question the extent to which the region's prison systems continue to adhere to international human rights norms (if they had ever adhered to these norms). We turn our attention to the daily lives of prison inmates and staff in the second half of the chapter. Here our focus shifts onto the self-governing nature of Latin American prisons.