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Short Circuit

Electronic Monitoring and the Crisis of the Brazilian Prison System

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  • Focus upon the Brazilian case enables innovative perspectives upon contemporary penal technologies
  • Methodological articulation of ethnography and genealogy facilitates understanding of EM technologies
  • Articularly well structured and cohesive, favoring a fluid and stimulating reading

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Drawing upon both ethnographic research and genealogical analysis, this book represents the first in-depth scientific analysis of criminal offenders’ electronic monitoring (EM) in Latin America’s largest country. It focuses on three empirical axes: 1) the implementation of EM policies against the backdrop of Brazil’s collapsing carceral system; 2) the discourses and rationalities which undergird the deployment of EM; and 3) the effects of EM upon convicts moving back and forth between penal institutions and urban spaces governed by armed militias, criminal gangs, and abusive police forces.

The book is ideal for researchers and practitioners concerned with the fields of criminal justice and public security all over the world.



Authors and Affiliations

  • Center for the Study of Violence, University of São Paulo (NEV/USP), Graduate Program in Social Anthropology, State University of Campinas (PPGAS/UNICAMP), São Paulo, Brazil

    Ricardo Urquizas Campello

About the author

Ricardo Urquizas Campello earned his degree from the Graduate Program in Sociology of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP), with a grant from the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP). He completed a Doctoral Internship at the Centre de recherches Sociologiques sur le Droit et les Institutions Pénales (CESDIP), with a FAPESP BEPE grant. He holds a Master in Social Sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC/SP), having received a scholarship from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). In his studies, he develops research on current modulations of control and punishment, penal and prison system, electronic monitoring, and forensic DNA databanks.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Short Circuit

  • Book Subtitle: Electronic Monitoring and the Crisis of the Brazilian Prison System

  • Authors: Ricardo Urquizas Campello

  • Translated by: Claudio Altenhain, Sebastian Nascimento

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21859-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21858-3Published: 01 February 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21861-3Published: 02 February 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-21859-0Published: 30 January 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 142

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Prison and Punishment, Prison and Punishment, Crime Control and Security, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general

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