BY PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE, BUT NOT BY THEMSELVES: the criminal system as control/limitation of democracy

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  • Jackson da Silva Leal Programa de post-Grado (doctorado) en Derecho (PPGD) de la Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC/Brasil)

Abstract

This paper analyzes the issues surrounding the demonstrations that took place in Brazil throughout the year 2013, but more intensely in June this year, and clashes with the agencies of social control that is produced. In this line, the analysis embraces the perspectives developed by critical criminology and by array Marxist political sociology, also retaking the conception of the criminal elucidated by Alessandro Baratta (1999). This work is predominantly based on theoretical and bibliographic references. It has the objective of contributing to a condensed understanding of contemporary reality, analyzing from the perspective of the Latin American critical criminology the role of social control in these times of turbulence and popular struggle against the bourgeois-classist project of power.

Keywords: popular demonstrations; social control; limited democracy; critical criminology; criminal justice system.

Author Biography

Jackson da Silva Leal, Programa de post-Grado (doctorado) en Derecho (PPGD) de la Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC/Brasil)

Graduado em Direito (UCPel); Mestrado em POlitica Social (UCPel); doutorando em Direito (UFSC); pesquisador em Criminologia Critica e sistema penal;

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Published

2015-03-27

Issue

2015: Número 8

Section

Research Papers

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