A falácia da ressocialização prisional: fatores que prendem por detrás das grades contexto brasileiro

Abstract

It is known that prison and crime have walked with humanity almost since the beginning of time, making the relationship between crime and incarceration a crucial problem in our society, both in terms of crime rates and the number of inmates behind bars, many of whom are repeat offenders. Thus, we justify the importance of researching and bringing to discussion such a pertinent theme. The objective of this paper is to analyze how prisons were constituted and how they are and analyze the resocializing process that occurs or should occur in prison and in the life of the offender in order to verify the faults and successes of this process. From an exploratory bibliographic research, using the qualitative methodology, we present the work by initially approaching prisons, the legal discourse about them, and the objectives and justifications for sentencing. Alongside the analysis of domination and power over the incarcerated body, we will also analyze the change in the application of punishments, reaching the penalty quantified in a time quorum. Linked to this, we are faced with the logic of capital that enables the maintenance of the prison industry, that reaps high economic gains from imprisonment. Moreover, there are other obscure factors to consider when studying resocialization, such as hyper incarceration, the imprisonment of the so-called "dangerous classes", prison selectivity, the action of criminal organizations in prison, among others. Thus, the results show that prisons are basically tied to the logic of capitalism, dehumanization, and prejudice, and generate a biased criminal profiling. Finally, it is observed that resocialization involves a broad process that requires primary actions in prison, should consider the return of the convict to the social environment and his restricted family circle. We conclude that the resocialization process in and out of prison has been flawed, causing a very high rate of recidivism in our country, thus being one more element in the promotion of criminality.