“A carne mais barata do mercado é a Carne Negra... Que vai de graça pro presídio”: a seletividade racial na privação de liberdade da juventude alagoana - AL

Abstract

Notoriously, the freedom of black people has always been on the agenda, before with slavery and now with imprisonment, thus, the monograph has as its object of study the racial selectivity existing in juvenile justice, especially in incarceration. The present study is an exploratory research, where the bibliographic and documentary method was used. A data analysis technique has a qualitative and quantitative nature and is inserted in the socio-legal area/field. The investigation was carried out in the state of Alagoas and its target audience was the segment consisting of male adolescents and young in observation of a socio-educational measure of partial or total deprivation of liberty. The monograph assumes that there is racial selectivity in the deprivation of liberty of youth in the Socio-Educational System of Alagoas. Thus, from the study it was possible to observe that the profile of young people deprived of liberty in the Alagoas Socio-Educational System remains almost unchanged over the years. This profile is composed of young, black, poor, with low education and victims of the lack of protection that result in different situations of violation of rights, evidencing the racial selectivity existing in the deprivation of liberty of young people. Clearly, there is a plan of extermination and incarceration as priority forms of social control and, in this scenario, racial selectivity acts as a mechanism for the various societal relations that select certain subjects to maintain the hierarchical order of the capitalist system, generating the deepening of social and social inequalities. , consequently, a public security and criminal justice policy that dehumanizes select subjects and imprisons them under a bias, not only racial, but social and geographical. Therefore, based on the assumption that there is a cycle in the capitalist system that produces and reproduces crime and, therefore, prison and defines who these criminals are, the suppression of this mode of sociability becomes more than necessary. While there is capitalism, there will be no freedom.