(In)Constitucionalidade das penas cruéis e infamantes no Brasil: da voz da criminologia crítica à voz dos encarcerados

Abstract

In this research at the doctoral level, we seek to verify the unconstitutionality of cruel and infamous punishment, with a theoretical contribution in critical criminology and ethnographic research, given the real function of the sentence and not that declared, according to the legal framework of the 1988 Constitution. Which prohibits penalties considered cruel and infamous. The main hypothesis is that the increase in prisoners in alarming numbers and the increase in punishment show that the penal system is becoming more violent and less suitable to fulfill its promised functions, in violation of the norms, treaties and principles governing the exercise of Its punitive power, then the prison sentence is unconstitutional, since it is cruel, infamous and indirectly of death, it is a punitive engineering of pain and violence, with the analysis of the concrete conditions of the functioning of the Brazilian penal system, not the declared speech, but the reality of pen and jail in Brazil. The delimitation of the theoretical framework - place of speech - will give it through "Critical Criminology", since it justifies the operability and real functions of the penal system through our colonial history, the extermination of indigenous peoples and the Including the new functions of the penal system in peripheral late capitalism, with the transformation of the State of Social Security into a Criminal State, with the objective of understanding the relations of the penal systems and their functional links with the selective mechanisms characteristic of a Brazilian economic and historical formation . For the accomplishment of the research, the approach methodology used was Hermeneutic phenomenology.