Documents of indiscipline and indifference
The violence of bureaucracy in a Brazilian juvenile prison
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2260802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristen Drybread (0000-0001-6573-4898, University of Colorado Boulder, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 411-423 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/amet.12335 |
| OpenAlex | W2498196004 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 25 |
Beatings and torture are common elements of prison discipline in Brazil. Yet the nation's juvenile inmates also suffer violence at the hands of prison staff and administrators in less obvious ways-through the production and circulation of institutional paperwork. Every relationship an inmate has with a professional who works in the juvenile-justice system is mediated by documents in which the discursive and the material interact to construct subjectivities, define relationships, and establish values. Ethnographically attending to the production and circulation of such documents reveals the ways that paperwork participates in structural violence: it circumscribes the identities and the futures of institutional subjects and limits the professional trajectories of lower-level bureaucrats. Moreover, official paperwork may in some cases contribute to the institutional violence that it purports to only record. [bureaucracy, disciplinary institutions, structural violence, youth crime, prison, courts, Brazil]Tortura e espancamento são estratégias disciplinares freqüentemente utilizadas nas prisões brasileiras. Além disso, adolescentes infratores detidos em unidades de internação permanente também sofrem nas mãos de funcionários e administradores de modo menos aparente-por meio da produção e da circulação de documentação institucional. Cada relação que um adolescente infrator tem com os profissionais da justiça é mediada por documentos nos quais o discursivo e o material interagem na construção de sujeitos, na definição de relações e no estabelecimento de valores. Estudar a produção e circulação desses documentos com um olhar etnográfico revela o modo pelo qual a documentação integra a estrutura da violência: circunscreve as identidades e os futuros dos sujeitos institucionalizados, bem como limita a trajetória profissional de burocratas dos níveis mais baixos. Além disso, os documentos oficiais podem em alguns casos contribuir para a violência institucional que pretendem apenas registrar. [burocracia, instituições disciplinares, violência estrutural, adolescentes infratores, prisão, tribunais, Brasil
Art · Bureaucracy · Criminology · Discipline · Economic Justice · Human rights · Humanities · Political science · Politics · Prison · Sociology · Torture · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Youth, Drugs, and Violence
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |