Warfare Tactics and Techno-Managerial Solutions: The Public Private Management of the Brazilian Prison Crisis
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https://doi.org/10.4322/dilemas.v16n1.50455Keywords:
Brazil, criminal justice, prison gangs, violence, security technologies, surveillanceAbstract
This article examines the interactions between the public and private sectors in the process of increasingly endowing the Brazilian penal system with security technologies in the wake of a series of prison rebellions led by the “criminal group” Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC). By discussing the discourses and rationales mobilized by politicians, legislators and businessmen within the scope of the Congressional Inquiry of the prison system established in 2008, the article shows that the growing presence of private capital into the Brazilian criminal justice system activates the technical and discursive connections between cost-effective surveillance and violent repression as the main strategies for prison management in the country.
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