Electronic monitoring by 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. Currently more than seventy thousand subjects are under electronic monitoring by the punitive power of the State. Faced with this phenomenon, the Research questions the extent to which the application of electronic anklets contributes to the humanization of serving sentences 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. To this end, it describes the electronic monitoring adopted by the Brazilian state; seeks to understand how the implementation of the electronic monitoring policy operates and its effects on subjects who have the presence of the State in the spatiality of their bodies and analyzes the public data obtained from the executive and judiciary powers. 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) on the punishment market and Zygmunt Bauman and David Lyon (2013) in Liquid surveillance and Technopolitics of surveillance – perspectives from the margin (2018); Primary sources such as books, doctoral theses and master's dissertations and secondary sources such as scientific and journalistic articles and news from internet portals, putting in dialogue with the contributions of seven informants that are part of the methodological framework of the work.