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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Mariana Thorstensen Possas in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
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The advent of democracy didn't mean the guarantee of the fundamental rights in Brazil. Human rights violations persist in the Brazilian democratic context, including those perpetrated by the State, such as the police violence cases. This situation leaves room for questioning the "quality" of Brazilian democracy, to the extent that access to human rights is considered a prerequisite for th…
This research aims to observe the relationship between human rights, criminal punishment and the concept of democracy. As previous studies showed, the human rights discourse is often mobilized by the political system to legitimize the "right to punish" and to demand harsh exclusion penalties when it comes to human rights violations. But human rights should not, instead, be used to "humani…
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