Bureaucratic practice as violence: managing the list of dead and disappeared prisoners in Brazil

In this text, I analyze the case of disappeared prisoners from the Alcaçuz Penitentiary in the Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Norte, in 2017. I follow the flow of official communication between the National Mechanism for the Prevention and Combat of Torture, hereafter the MNPCT) and state institut...

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Main Author: Prando, Camila (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
In: Police and state crime in the Americas
Year: 2024, Pages: 167-181
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Summary:In this text, I analyze the case of disappeared prisoners from the Alcaçuz Penitentiary in the Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Norte, in 2017. I follow the flow of official communication between the National Mechanism for the Prevention and Combat of Torture, hereafter the MNPCT) and state institutions in Rio Grande do Norte - Rio Grande do Norte Public Prosecutor, Judiciary, and Executive state branches - between January 2017 and November 2018. My intention is to understand in what ways the bureaucratic practice disputes the naming of the phenomenon of the disappearance of prisoners as a public cause and how it produces the management of disappearances. Guided by the ethnography of documents, I examine documents under the perspective of time, form, aesthetics, and content.
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 180-181
ISBN:9783031458118