Banca de DEFESA: Marcos Aurelio Sloniak

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STUDENT : Marcos Aurelio Sloniak
DATE: 10/10/2025
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Sala de defesa
TITLE:

From the expectation of de-incarceration to the risk of punitive expansion: social representations of electronic monitoring in the Federal District

 

KEY WORDS:

Electronic monitoring; Social representations; Criminal justice; Penal policy; Sociology of deviance

 

PAGES: 333
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Sociologia
SUMMARY:

This doctoral thesis analyzes the policy of electronic monitoring in the Federal District of Brazil through the social representations of criminal justice system actors, including judges, prosecutors, public defenders, and institutional administrators. The central aim is to understand how the meanings attributed to electronic ankle bracelets shape their application and effects, both in penal execution and in pretrial measures. The study adopts a qualitative approach, grounded in the Theory of Social Representations, and draws on in-depth interviews, institutional observations, and documentary analysis, with contextual support from official statistical data.

The findings show that, in contrast to the expansionist trend observed in other Brazilian states, the Federal District follows a reserved and cautious approach to electronic monitoring, keeping it as a differentiated measure and avoiding its banalization. The identified social representations reveal the prevalence of an austere punitive rationality that values the classical progressive paradigm of sentencing over electronic monitoring as a generalized solution. In this context, the ankle bracelet operates more as a symbol of surveillance than as an effective alternative to incarceration, reinforcing tensions between humanitarian discourse and disciplinary practices.

By restricting the use of electronic monitoring, the Federal District reaffirms its preference for a classical punitive model, based on a clear definition of the stages of sentence progression, rather than on the logic of expanding penal control. This choice highlights contradictions between discourses of efficiency and an institutional selectivity oriented toward the restrictive use of the measure, underscoring the need for continuous reflection on the social and symbolic effects of this policy.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2279253 - ARTHUR TRINDADE MARANHAO COSTA
Interna - 3173987 - ANALIA LAURA SORIA BATISTA
Interna - 1668696 - HAYDEE GLORIA CRUZ CARUSO
Externa à Instituição - DANIELE SOUSA DE ALCANTARA - PMDF
Externo à Instituição - ANTONIO HENRIQUE GRACIANO SUXBERGER - UNICEUB