ESTADO PENAL E NEOLIBERALISMO: O AVANÇO DO PUNITIVISMO E O DECLÍNIO DO ESTADO SOCIAL
ESTADO PENAL E NEOLIBERALISMO: O AVANÇO DO PUNITIVISMO E O DECLÍNIO DO ESTADO SOCIAL
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.532182530061
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Palavras-chave: Estado Penal; Neoliberalismo; Punitivismo; Criminalização da pobreza; Racismo estrutural; Brasil.
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Keywords: Penal State; Neoliberalism; Punitivism; Criminalization of poverty; Structural racism; Brazil
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Abstract: This article analyzes the consolidation of the Penal State as an instrument for managing inequality in the context of neoliberal advancement, focusing on how this phenomenon manifests in Brazil. Through a bibliographic study grounded in classical and contemporary authors such as Michel Foucault, David Garland, Loïc Wacquant, Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni, and Vera Malaguti Batista, the discussion centers on how punitive logic replaces the protective role of the State, reinforcing practices of criminalizing poverty and controlling vulnerable populations. It is argued that, instead of promoting inclusion and citizenship, the neoliberal State shifts its actions toward repression, intensifying incarceration, surveillance, and police lethality as means of social order. The Brazilian case reveals a radicalized model of the Penal State, marked by structural racism, penal selectivity, and security policies based on a logic of extermination.
- Adriano Pereira Basilo de Oliveira