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Penal power in America: forms, functions and foundations

2017; Issue: 129 Linguagem: Inglês

1415-5400

David Garland,

Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis

EnglishIn this lecture I discuss the exercise of penal power in contemporary America with a view to explaining its historical causes, its contemporary forms and functions, and its social foundations. I argue that the system’s fundamental, universal emphasis is not degradation, retribution, racial caste-making or neo-liberal discipline but instead the imposition of penal controls and I speculate about the social and political roots of that commitment. Re-connecting penal controls with patterns of crime and violence, I highlight the deficits of social control and social capital that affect certain American institutions as well as the limited capacities and patterned dispositions of the American state. portuguesNesta palestra, discuto o exercicio do poder punitivo na America contemporânea, visando explicar causas historicas, suas funcoes e formas contemporâneas, alem das bases sociais de fundacao. Meu argumento e o de que a questao principal do sistema nao e a degradacao, a retribuicao, a castracao racial ou a disciplina neoliberal, mas especulo que seja a imposicao de controles penais, cujas raizes sao sociais e politicas. Ao reconectar controles penais com padroes de crime e violencia, ponho enfase nas deficiencias do controle social e capital social como causas que afetaram certas instituicoes americanas, assim como limitaram suas capacidades e disposicoes-padrao no estado Americano, resultando na forma de exercicio do poder punitivo na America.