Monitoramento eletrônico: poder, capital e ciência na análise de uma tecnologia de governo

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the electronic monitoring as a government technology used to control people who are subjugated by the Criminal Justice System in Alagoas. For this, an ethnographic research was made to analyze the usual operation of electronic monitoring, and what controversies are involved with it from a symmetrical approach based in the Co-production Theory, Civic Epistemologies and the Actor-Network Theory. This theoretical approach was choose to avoid reductionisms to treat the material and immaterial elements which are involved. Besides analyzing how the criminal control works and settles down, through the ankle bracelet and its agency, we examine the relations that are created in the electronic monitoring situation. Ultimately, the electronic monitoring seems to emerge as a way to desterritorialize the punishment and enforce the control over subjects subjected to the Criminal Justice System, through the use of a technoscience product, created for these purposes, allegedly neutral and impartial.