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| Author(s): |
Gustavo Lucas Higa
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2024-03-20 |
| Examining board members: |
Marcos Cesar Alvarez;
Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti;
Maria Jose de Rezende;
Fernando Afonso Salla
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| Advisor: | Marcos Cesar Alvarez |
| Abstract | |
The 1980s was a period of transformations in the Brazilian political system, as negotiations for the transition process were underway. The dictatorship was gradually fading away, and democracy was slowly returning amid intense disputes and negotiations. During that time, a series of institutional reforms were undertaken with the aim of dismantling the tradition of arbitrariness and the lack of rights guarantees, especially within prisons and law enforcement agencies. It was in this context that efforts were made to implement Humanization Policies, a political agenda aimed at consolidating respect for human rights and paving the way for the arrival of the New Republic. This position and practice faced many resistances, both from lawmakers and the so-called public opinion. This research aims to analyze the course of discourses on Humanization and Human Rights during the transition, especially the formation of discourses opposing such a conception of rights, which was largely delegitimized amidst the race for democratization. We will argue that the notion of Moral Panic helps us understand this process of delegitimization of Human Rights. There was a kind of movement that used discourses against these rights, whose main argumentative structure was to relativize the humanity of \"criminals,\" blame redemocratization for the crisis in the public security system, and, most importantly, consider Humanization Policies as an inversion of moral values, arguing that such an agenda treated those who should undergo an idealized form of penal rigor with excessive leniency. We will see, on the one hand, that the pro-Human Rights discourse lost space and support; on the other hand, the discourse against Human Rights intensified and gained support in the following years. This research falls within the theme of Sociology of Violence and Punishment, using a Sociology of Moral Panics, Rumors, and discursive practices as analytical tools. For this purpose, the main references are the works of Michel Foucault and Stanley Cohen. This experience constitutes valuable empirical material whose study can elucidate contemporary issues, such as the obstacles still present when implementing Human Rights policies, democratizing relationships within prisons, and how the discourse of insecurity is conceived and exploited even today. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/25438-0 - Moral panic and human rights: the experience of the so-called humanization policy in São Paulo |
| Grantee: | Gustavo Lucas Higa |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |