"Electronically monitored punishment: perceptions of monitors and monitored on the use of electronic anklets in Brazil and France in a comparative perspective".
Electronic monitoring; Control device; Punishment industry; Prison capitalism; Multi-situational
ethnography.
Based on a criminological study of a multisited ethnographic nature and allied to the symbolic interactionism approach, within the framework of discussions on decarceration, rationalization policies of punitive power and the guarantee and abolitionist paradigms; this research focuses on the interactions between state agents (monitors) and users of electronic anklets during the fulfillment of judicial measures (monitored), situated and submitted in networks, mechanisms and devices of electronic surveillance and criminal policy in Brazil and France, in a comparative perspective. In this sense, from significant contexts, at the local/global level, as well as from direct contact with the interlocutors, intense observations during fieldwork in prison services in different locations in the two countries (in Brazil: Belo Horizonte/Minas Gerais/Southeast, Recife/Pernambuco/Northeast and Brasília/Distrito Federal/Mid-Eest; in France: Paris/Île-de-France, Dijon/Côte-d'Or/Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Beauvais and Compiègne/Oise/Hautsde- France, Saint-Denis and Pantin/Seine-Saint-Denis/Île-de-France, Créteil and Fresnes/Val-de- Marne/Île-de-France), at different times over 10 years, with dense field diary accounts and documentary analysis; It highlights how the monitoring of people with electronic anklets has proven to be a continuum of ordinary imprisonment and a technological resource of scrutiny of bodies and movements, specialized in terms of legal nature, functions (real or declared), practical uses and its effects; within the broader framework of the industries of security and punishment, under the aegis of prison capitalism, surveillance societies and the culture of control.