Name: CAROLINA ASSIS CASTILHOLI
Publication date: 10/07/2018
Examining board:
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| DIRCE NAZARÉ DE ANDRADE FERREIRA | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: The present research aimed to analyze the policy of prison system‟s expansion in Espírito Santo from 2011 to 2016 in order to verify whether it developed aligned with the conception of political-criminal responsibility. The present study used the descriptive typology, with a qualitative approach. The collection procedures used were the bibliographical and documentary survey. The national criminal and penitentiary policy plans elaborated by the National Council of Criminal and Penitentiary Policy (CNPCP) in 2011 and 2016, the resolutions issued by the CNPCP between 2011 and 2016, the development plans ES 2025 and ES 2030 and the state‟s pluriannual plans for the years 2008-2011, 2012-2015 and 2016-2019. Among the secondary data used are those provided by the Ministry of Justice through the National Survey of Penitentiary Information (INFOPEN). The data were then analyzed through categorization based on the Subirats et al. (2008) concepts of "actors", "resources", "institutional milestones" and "products of the stages of public policy formulation", in order to enable the subsequent analysis of relations between the components of those categories. The theoretical framework dealt with the mass incarceration and the continuous expansion of the prison system as well as the decoupling between incarceration and criminal statistics, given the political-cultural character of decision-making in this area. It also addressed the consideration of penitentiary politics as a public policy, as well as the regulation of public managers‟ liability in the Brazilian law. Finally, the study focused on the proposals of studies of legislative impact and the proposal of law of political-criminal liability. Then, an overview was made of the historical and present conjuncture of the prison system at the national and state levels, followed by an analysis of plans and formal acts to implement the policy of expansion of the prison system during the period under analysis (2011-2016), through the theoretical framework of public policy analysis developed by Subirats et al. (2008). Considering the outcomes from the analysis, a proposal was drawn for an agenda to the reduction of imprisonment in Espírito Santo, aimed to reach a paradigm of political-criminal liability.
KEYWORDS: Political-criminal liability. Criminal and Penitentiary Policy. Mass Incarceration. Reduction of Imprisonment.
