Cultura do controle, punição e Ministério Público: um estudo de caso a partir da comarca de Dourados

Abstract

The indiscriminate increase of violence and crime in Brazil, combined with the social imaginary still inherited from an exception regime and a sensationalist media, has promoted a social increasing desire for more penalties and more criminalization of certain social segments. This phenomenon has as theoretical reference, among others, the idea of a "control culture" in which seeks to control crime and violence through repressive and more punitive measures, ranging from the desire to create tougher laws, through mass incarceration until the so-called "social justice". The research developed for this dissertation was intended to analyze, from a case study, how the State Public Prosecutor of the Dourados County incorporates social and moral issues that are related to the punishment of people who commit violent crimes. Based on observations of hearings, jury courts and interviews, the objective was to understand how this institution, which gained prominence from the 1988 Constitution, has been dealing with social demands for punishment and criminalization.