Rui Pedro Pinto - Estado, Pobreza e Punição

"State, Poverty, and Punishment" corresponds to a sociological reflection on state intervention in the social space marked by the strong weight of domination, seeking to objectify punitive aspects of that action.

The purpose of the analysis presented here translates the choice of the intersection of two reflective lines: one guided by sociological theoretical production linked to analytical frameworks and observations leading to an understanding of that state intervention, and the other by the analytical contribution of the French social scientist Loïc Wacquant, with the production of stable sociological knowledge about this scientific problem. These reflective axes correspond mainly to two somewhat denser lines in a grid of many other lines of problems and authors that intersect.

Based on the multiple theoretical-empirical coordinates presented and reviewed relationally, a study was conducted to monitor the activities within the criminal jurisdiction of the Northern Regional Police Station, of the General Directorate of Social Reintegration, which gave rise to the General Directorate of Reintegration and Prison Services. The exploration of this institution allowed for the objectification of contradictory dynamics in social reintegration policies and the growth in the application of non-custodial sentences and measures whose execution is ensured by the institution, aiming to discern the contribution of this case from the bureaucratic field to the conceptual and empirical specification of the Wacquant model, through the lens of Brazilian sociopolitical evolution.