Organizações criminosas no sistema carcerário brasileiro: origens e influências

Abstract

This work offers an examination of the trajectory of Brazilian criminal organizations coming from the prison system from 90th decade. It is developed with the central objective to assess the power relations in prison and consolidation of large associations and social and politics monopolization. The analysis and presentation to the reader through reflections between a Foucaultiana Discipline, as proposed in Discipline and Punish, and its correlation with the punitive methods of the current prison system. In addition, the discussion will lead with the difficult in defining criminal activities as a faction or as a criminal organization, considering that ideological / selective weight such labeling may entail. It will be also studied the political factors that promote the development of organized criminal groups inside the criminal units, and for this, it will be made a historical cut focused on the advent of the First Command of the Capital and, consequently, in the penal policies of São Paulo that contributed to its formation. And finally, we will discuss how legislative responses of an emergency character, which the Brazilian legal system has used since the 90th, in the face of the increase of violence and the update of the organizations focus of this research.