Jail Violence: Moral Aggression in Prison Establishments of the Federal District

Authors

  • Carolina Barreto Lemos UnB

Keywords:

moral aggression, prison, citizenship, dignity, equality

Abstract

This article is the result of an ethnographic research with women and men incarcerated in the Federal District, Brazil. Its aim is to analyze the different forms of violence experienced by these people in the prison establishments of the Capital city, Brasília. We will see that moral aggression, translated as the perception of disrespect and denial of dignity, appears as the focal point of the distress experienced by these women and men. The analysis of the treatment received by imprisoned people contributes, moreover, to the study of the different dimensions of citizenship and conceptions of equality in Brazil.

Author Biography

Carolina Barreto Lemos, UnB

Doutoranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito (PPGD) da Universidade de Brasília (UnB, Brasil). Possui mestrado em filosofia pela Université Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne (Paris 1, França) e graduação em direito pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG, Brasil).

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Published

2017-06-09

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2017): MAI/JUN/JUL/AGO

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