Execução penal em Sergipe : um percurso sociológico pelas práticas judiciárias e o confinamento prisional.

Abstract

In the present study we investigate the impacts of carceral confinement by means of the judiciary practices related to the execution of the penalty of deprivation of liberty in the state of Sergipe. We give privilege to an ethnographic perspective of insertion in the research field and use procedures of qualitative research: semi-structured interviews, participant observation, register and analysis of the field diaries, analysis of documents and records made by judiciary and administrative institutions. The professional condition of a psychologist in a Penal Executions Court has allowed a privileged access to the organizations and to the social actors and, on the other hand, deflagrated the insertion of the researcher as part of the very phenomena that she intended to study. We have identified, in the carceral system of Sergipe, that the geographic disposition of the prisons is a strong strategic component of the penal operation. As from this are engendered complex effects of power, whose logic we denominate penal geopolitics. We point the factors that work in the composition of the mechanisms of carceral recruitment to a certain clientele. We describe and analyse how judiciary devices work as propellers of the impacts that imprisonment inflicts as much upon those who are directly submitted to it as upon their respective socio-familiar and other relations.