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.

Auteur

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.