Encarceramento em massa como política social nos Estados Unidos e Brasil

Both the United States and Brazil have undergone major changes in social policies. The replacement of the welfare state by a police state today, in practice, demonstrates the excessive criminalization of marginality that generates punitive restraint that affects mainly the poor and, above all, the b...

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Main Author: Renata Danin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università degli Studi di Milano 2019-02-01
Series:Altre Modernità
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Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/11332
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Summary:Both the United States and Brazil have undergone major changes in social policies. The replacement of the welfare state by a police state today, in practice, demonstrates the excessive criminalization of marginality that generates punitive restraint that affects mainly the poor and, above all, the black population. This article approaches this relationship through a bibliographical review and has as main finding the similarities between Brazil and the United States in its social construction that leads to mass incarceration.
ISSN:2035-7680