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Penal Abolitionism and Transformative Justice in Brazil (Hardcover)
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Penal Abolitionism and Transformative Justice in Brazil (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
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Penal Abolitionism and Transformative Justice in Brazil discusses
how penal abolitionism provides fundamental theoretical bases and
practical references for the construction of a transformative
justice in Brazil, supporting the claim that justice is a socially
constructed conception and that victims do not unanimously stand
for punishment. The book explores how the active participation of
the protagonists of a conflict in a face-to-face negotiation of
symbolic reparation, can produce a sense of justice without the
need to punish or impose suffering on anyone. Mapping the ways that
restorative justice in Brazil has distanced itself from the
potential of transformative justice, to the extent that it fails to
politicize the conflict and give voice to victims, the book shows
how it has resulted in becoming just a new version of penal
alternatives with correctionalist content. Moving away from
traditional criminal justice language and also from conservative
approaches to restorative justice, the author argues that the
communicative potential of the transformative kind of redress can
be dissociated from the unproved assumption that legal punishment
is essential or even likely to achieve justice or deterrence. The
arguments are grounded in the Brazilian reality, where life is
marked by deep social inequalities and a high level of police
violence. By providing a review of the literature on restorative
justice, transformative justice, and abolitionism, the book
contextualizes the abolitionist debate in Brazil and its history in
the 19th century. Penal Abolitionism and Transformative Justice in
Brazil is important reading for students and scholars who study
punishment and penal abolitionism, to think about what it is
possible to do in societies so deeply marked by social injustice
and a history of oppression.
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