The criminalization of indigenous people in Roraima state, Brazil

Indigenous Strategies to Bring Their Rights Into Effect in the Face of Injustices and Inequalities

Bibliographic Data

ID2489253
AuthorsStephen Grant Baine (0000-0002-9232-8737, Universidade de Brasília, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume18
Publication date2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1809-4341 • E-ISSN: 1809-4341
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1809-43412021v18a702
OpenAlexW4205561052
SCIELO_PIDS1809-43412021000100702
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited5

The criminalization of indigenous people in the prisons of Roraima state, Brazil, is examined, in which the justice system, as throughout Brazil, has no mechanisms to identify indigenous people and recognize their differentiated constitutional rights, reinforcing the inequalities and injustices for indigenous people, the most oppressed and discriminated since colonial times. Over the past decade, indigenous organizations in the state capital have drawn attention to this problem and taken protagonist measures to try to change it. The Indigenous Council of Roraima (CIR), through their lawyer, Joênia Wapichana, elected, in 2018 the first Indigenous woman to be a federal deputy, set up a project to write down indigenous oral law so that it could be used locally to deal with criminal cases, encouraging indigenous communities to resolve accusations of crimes through councils of local leaders and thereby avoid them being handed over to the mainstream criminal justice system

Criminal justice · Criminalization · Criminology · Economic Justice · Face (sociological concept · Indigenous · Mainstream · Political science · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Law · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses

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