I want pictures, where are the images Commander Hamilton?

The rhetoric of contemporary criminal populism and the 'Democracy of Distrust', an analysis of the impacts of criminal populism on the contemporary Brazilian punitive complex

Authors

  • Leonardo Faustino Pereira Federal University of Minas Gerais
  • Sara Carolina Zica Ribeiro Federal University of Minas Gerais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35699/2525-8036.2020.15166

Keywords:

Crime, Populism, Language

Abstract

The Brazilian punitive complex, understood here not only as the prison but as all instances of the exercise of state power in its criminalizing activity, not only exists in the figure of its agents, institutions and physical means of control and containment, but also has existence in the cultural field, infiltrating language and through it the social perception of reality. Thus, it is possible to say that there is a punitive language formed and capable of reforming the punitive complex. However, this language, existing as a social construct, is continually at the mercy of external factors, and the recent escalation of party-ideological sectarization and the emergence of political identities based on distrust in traditional institutions have reshaped this language and ultimately instance the whole punitive complex, towards an ultra-punitivism of strong populist appeal. This paper attempts to understand how contemporary relations between politics and language have led to this phenomenon.

Author Biographies

  • Leonardo Faustino Pereira, Federal University of Minas Gerais

    Mestrando em Direito pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Bacharel em Direito pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

    ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0100-2425

  • Sara Carolina Zica Ribeiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais

    Especialista em Direito Processual Civil e Direito de Família e Sucessões pelo Centro de Atualização em Direito. Bacharel em Direito pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

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Published

2020-05-13

How to Cite

I want pictures, where are the images Commander Hamilton? The rhetoric of contemporary criminal populism and the ’Democracy of Distrust’, an analysis of the impacts of criminal populism on the contemporary Brazilian punitive complex. Revista de Ciências do Estado, Belo Horizonte, v. 5, n. 1, p. 1–18, 2020. DOI: 10.35699/2525-8036.2020.15166. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/revice/article/view/e15166. Acesso em: 19 dec. 2024.