Cárcere – senzala: a criminalização do povo preto como reflexo do racismo no sistema punitivo do estado brasileiro
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2020-12-16
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Universidade Católica do Salvador
Abstract
The present dissertation has as its goal to discuss the phenomenon of the Slave-
Prison1 as a reflex of the racism in the Brazilian Punishment System’s actions,
considering Black people as the majority of the population inside prisons. To achieve
its research goals, historical questions were discussed as they collaborated for the
construction of the current social scene as an on going racial stratification situation.
It’s also discussed the differences and characteristics of hate crimes motivated by
racism and prejudice, based on the Penal Code of Brazil of 1940, and the theories
from the XIX century (The Lombrosian Theory and Social Evolutionism) that made
popular the idea of the pathologization of the criminal through their physical
characteristics, associating a certain profile to a criminal conduct which reinforces the
idea that the crime correlates to a physical pattern. In this way, notices the presence
of the same chain of thought as an influence upon the current criminal legislation. As
a method of research, it was a choice to apply the Labelling Approach Theory with
the goal of indicating what the Critical Criminology discusses about the subject in
question.
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Cárcere-senzala, Racismo, Legislação, Criminalização, Slave-prison, Racism, Legislation, Criminalization