A tortura no superencarceramento brasileiro: Estado e criminalização na crise estrutural do capital

Abstract

The present research analyzes torture in the super incarceration in Brazil from the last decades. The theme is approached from a conceptual and historical perspective inserted in the theoretical-methodological framework of Marx's theory. For that, concepts and categories such as State, expropriation, ideology and criminal question are problematized. Thus, the phenomenon of over-incarceration is approached as part of the worsening of the repression measures undertaken by the States in the context of the structural crisis of capital and how this mechanism was operated in the Brazilian peculiarity marked by bourgeois autocracy and structural racism. Torture as an acute form of violence coexists with the maturation of the instruments of its prohibition and the permanence and sophistication of its practices. Torture and supercarceration have a symbiotic relationship fostered by economic and political interests that are expressed in the criminalization of race and class. We conclude with the analysis of incarceration rates in Brazil and their relationship whit torture from sources of different natures where their coexistence with the rule of law and Brazilian democracy is discussed.