Emoções, práticas e sentidos humanos: uma etnografia com “juízes progressistas”

Abstract

This dissertation aims to present a group of criminal judges from Rio de Janeiro who, in the exercise of their functions, remain critical of the decree of the sentence of deprivation of liberty as the main measure to deal with crime, I call them “progressive judges”. Using categories extracted from life history interviews, I seek to understand and analyze their “progressive” identity, formed from the contrast with the “conservative” category. I examine the emotional and moral expressions around the meanings that they attribute to the everyday work with criminal law, which reveal forms of social suffering linked to the dynamics of the State. In addition to a brief fieldwork carried out with one of the interlocutors, I analyze the practices adopted by “progressive judges” to circumvent institutional, legal and bureaucratic elements capable of generating suffering, both for themselves and for those accused of criminal justice and their families. Finally, based on an ethnographic scene observed in a reception program for accused people, I explore the category of “humanity” and how a place could “humanize”, revealing possible ways of creating the State.