‘Embretados’! The Case of the ‘Inmates in Police Cars’ in Rio Grande do Sul and the New Forms of Punishment

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4322/dilemas.v15n1.42675

Keywords:

prisons, police, public security policies, “brete government”, punishment

Abstract

This paper analyzes the case of prisoners housed in police vehicles and prisons, which became routine in Rio Grande do Sul from 2015 onwards. Suspects face a punishment at the body’s threshold and administratively decided upon, that is, prior to a court hearing. Based on research carried out between 2015 and 2020, we analyzed the emergency of the daily life, based on concepts of “territory” by Haesbaert and “security device” by Foucault. We concluded that the implementation of polices whit a corporate bias in the police is related to the formation of a kind of a “government brete”, an urban nonplace that imprisons or corner inmates in the midst of a punishment that denies them even the right to a place in prison.   

Author Biographies

Fernanda Bassani, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Doutora e mestre pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Social e Institucional (PPGPSI) da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brasil). É psicóloga do campo da segurança pública no Rio Grande do Sul.

Neuza Maria de Fátima Guareschi, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Professora associada da UFRGS e coordenadora do grupo de pesquisa Estudos Culturais e Modos de Subjetivação e do Núcleo e-Politics: Estudos em Políticas e Tecnologias Contemporâneas de Subjetivação. Tem doutorado em educação pela University of Wisconsin-Madison (EUA), mestrado em psicologia social e da personalidade pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brasil) e graduação em psicologia pela PUCRS.

Downloads

Published

2022-01-18

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2022): JAN/FEV/MAR/ABR

Section

Articles

License

Upon submitting a text, the authors retain copyright and grant DILEMAS - Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons License type attribution BY (CC-BY), which permits sharing of the work with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal.