Crítica às políticas públicas penitenciárias no Brasil: ideias jurídicas sobre os efeitos psicossociais da prisionização

Abstract

This research investigated the serious psychosomatic and psychosocial adversities acquired by the social being segregated in penitentiary units in fulfillment of a closed prison sentence inserted in the capitalist sociability, led by the bourgeois civil society. The purpose of the research was to acquire enough theoretical and empirical basis to evaluate the reformist public policies that reduce damages against the phenomenon of imprisonment. It was also interesting to verify the type of sociability to which the inmates are subject, especially to know in detail the degree of participation of bourgeois society in the penitentiary issue, both in the creation of truculent measures against prisoners, and in the construction and application of softening public policies. In this sense, it was verified the measure of the disservice performed by the bourgeoisie by exacerbating its social punitiveness to all sorts of vulnerable citizens, victims of the prison system: men, women, elderly, young people and children, as well as investigating the problems for the realization and implementation of progressive daily practices, favorable to deprisonment of detainees, in the areas of education, work, visits, religion, etc. A broad theoretical-methodological study was presented in the fields of social, economic and political history, as well as assistance from social psychology, sociology, anthropology, criminology and criminal law, in which the multiple determinations of the object of study were contemplated in the hundreds of concepts, definitions, categories and notions of authors of the most diverse shades. His formulations were discussed, some accepted, others rejected, in the sense of unveiling the inhumane veils that cover up the essence of social relations in any prison in Brazil.