A intensificação do controle penal sobre a força de trabalho excedente no contexto de crise estrutural do capital

Abstract

This thesis aims to analyze and demonstrate the economic, political and social causes that have provided in the current context of structural crisis of capital, growth and intensification of criminal control of surplus labor that in the current historical circumstances, has achieved growth rates hitherto unprecedented in the history of capitalism. In this sense, we develop a study that seize the said phenomenon beyond its immediacy. In other words, we want to bring to the debate not only the determination of the current historical context, but try to analyze it from the historical and ontological foundations that you give concreteness and effectiveness throughout the development of the capitalist mode of production because, in our view, what we see today is not taken off the accumulation and reproduction of capital process. In this sense, we can only grasp the determinations of this phenomenon if we make the proper connections that link the process of formation and consolidation of the capitalist mode of production with its corresponding form of penal control. This means that you must learn and demonstrate the social tasks of the penal control in the process of production and reproduction of capital over its development because we cannot lose sight of the capital system can only ensure its self-expansion by continuous extraction and uninterruptible added value. Hence the need for capital to appropriate all dimensions of social life and explore, in various ways, the economic potential of each. It is therefore in the midst of this societal process which can then locate, apprehend and explain the socio-historical factors that have led, in the current context of crisis, the intensification process of criminal control and how this has proved highly functional to reproduction of the capital system in times of crisis because, while it handles, also tends to transform the workforce (considered superfluous, ie, disposable productive imperatives of capital in the current context) in raw material and, thereby exploit their economic potential under another approach - the approach of criminalization and therefore part of the incarceration of this population group that in recent years has increased significantly.