Prisons, inmates and governance in Latin America / Máximo Sozzo, editor.
This edited collection addresses the topic of prison governance which is crucial to our understanding of contemporary prisons in Latin America. It presents social research from Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Peru, Uruguay and Argentina to examine the practic...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction Inmate Governance in Latin America. Context, trends and conditions
- Part I. Emergence and Transformations
- 2. Governance and Legitimacy in Brazilian Prison: From Solidarity Committees to the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) in São Paulo
- 3. Tales from La Catedral: the Narco and the Reconfiguration of Prison Social Order in Colombia
- 4. Provós, Representantes, Agentes: The Evolution of Prison Governance Arrangements in the Dominican Republic's Prison Reform Process
- Part II. Dynamics and variations
- 5. The carceral reproduction of neoliberal order: Power, ideology and economy in Venezuelan prison
- 6. Enduring lock-up. Co-governance and exception in Nicaragua's hybrid carceral system
- 7. Co-governance of dialogue: hegemony in a Brazilian prison
- 8. A Decolonial and Depatriarchal approach to Women's Imprisonment: Co-governance, legal pluralism and gender at Santa Mónica prison, Perú
- 9. Evangelical Wings and Prison Governance in Argentina
- Part III. Alternatives?
- 10. The 'prisoner-entrepreneur'. Responsibilization and co-governance at Punta de Rieles prison in Uruguay
- 11. Radical Alternatives to Criminal Detention
- 12. Epilogue. Inmate Governance in Latin America. Comparative and theoretical notes.