Short Circuit: Electronic Monitoring and the Crisis of the Brazilian Prison System

Description

Drawing upon both ethnographic research and genealogical analysis, this book represents the first in-depth scientific analysis of criminal offenders’ electronic monitoring (EM) in Latin America’s largest country. It focuses on three empirical axes: 1) the implementation of EM policies against the backdrop of Brazil’s collapsing carceral system; 2) the discourses and rationalities which undergird the deployment of EM; and 3) the effects of EM upon convicts moving back and forth between penal institutions and urban spaces governed by armed militias, criminal gangs, and abusive police forces. The book is ideal for researchers and practitioners concerned with the fields of criminal justice and public security all over the world. Foreword: Perverse Effects of an Alternative Sanction Foreword: The Labyrinth Beyond the Bars Acknowledgments Contents Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Initial Outline 1.2 Methodological Approach 1.3 Chapters References Chapter 2: Short Circuit 2.1 Human–Machine Interface 2.2 The Jailer of Oneself 2.3 Connecting Cog 2.4 The Marked Body References Chapter 3: Lines of Emergence 3.1 Epistemological Progeny: Psychotechnology 3.2 Science Fiction and Neoliberal Penality 3.3 Martial Traces: Geopositioning as a Technology of War References Chapter 4: Diagrammatic Compositions 4.1 It’s a Signal Blockage 4.2 Superimposed Diagrams 4.3 Silicon and Rubble References Chapter 5: Converging Enunciations 5.1 Eclectic Discourses and the PCC Attacks 5.2 Unlikely Origins 5.3 The Trade Show References Chapter 6: Out of Control 6.1 Success in Failure 6.2 Out of Control References Afterword Index