People electronic monitoring by criminal justice system in Brazil: A TAYLORMADE PRISON
Surveillance culture; electronic monitoring; punishment market; electronic anklets.
Electronic monitoring of people by the criminal justice system is on the rise in Brazil. According to data from the National Council of Justice, in 2014 an electronic ankle bracelet was applied to ninety people. It so happened that, in less than a decade, more than seventy thousand subjects are under electronic surveillance by the punitive power of the State. Faced with this phenomenon, the Research questions the extent to which the application of electronic ankle bracelets contributes to the humanization of serving the sentence in Brazil. The general objective is to analyze the public policy of electronic monitoring of people, mainly considering the ambivalences arising from the human – machine – state triad. Therefore, it describes the historicity of the implementation of the public policy on electronic monitoring adopted by the Brazilian state; it seeks to understand how the execution of the electronic monitoring policy operates and its affectations on subjects who have the State device attached to their bodies and analyzes the public data obtained from the executive and judiciary powers, with a view to proposing measures with the potential of contribute to humanize the fulfillment of this jurisdictional measure. The study of the phenomenon seeks to dialogue with theoretical texts that problematize the punitive power of the State and the culture of surveillance, with emphasis on the insights of Ricardo Campello (2019) about the punishment market, Michel Foucault (1975), in Vigiar e punir, Zygmunt Bauman and David Lyon (2013) in Liquid surveillance, Surveillance technopolitics – perspectives from the margin (2018), Fernanda Bruno in Máquinas de ver, ways of being: surveillance, technology and subjectivity, Byung-Chul Han on the perspectives of the digital and critically based Latin American criminologists, with emphasis on Vera Batista, Maria Lúcia Karam and Nilo Batista. Primary sources such as books, doctoral theses and master's dissertations and secondary sources such as scientific, journalistic articles and news from internet portals are part of the methodological framework of the work.