Transcript Diapositivo 1 - iscte-iul

Selectivity analyses
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António Pedro Dores, 30 May 2008
CRCC meeting, Ankara
What is our goal?
• To present national results of social
selectivity on criminalization
• To access the knowldge of social services
professionals on cost evaluation of crime
repression
• Perception of profissionals about the
efficiency of judicial and penal activities
• Special focus on drug war situation
Table of issues
• The Portuguese situation
• Known social targets for penal selectivity
• Theoretical and methodological decisions
on social research
The Portuguese situation
• Strutural problems on education, justice
and modern social movements (and economics)
• Low crime rate, low immigration rate, low
political controversy
• High social inequality
• High number of prison inmates, low
prestige of justice decisions, weak social
movements claiming justice fairness
The Portuguese situation (II)
• High level political (conspirative) conflicts about
justice system (to promote economic fairness perserving
practical imunity to social high rank people. Look at corruption discussions)
• Few studies on law or prisons. Justice
statistics availabel only very recently.
• Administrative censorship constraints on
justice and prison workers
• Easy preventive imprisonment (automatic for
foreigners)
Known tragets for selectivity
• Gipsys, black people and foreigners –
Africans, Brazilians and eastern
Europeans
• No educated and poor people
• People living “problematic neighborhoods”
• Impunity for VIP and corruption
Methodological ambiance
• Government decline to colaborate
• Dificult to achieve authorization to reach
ressocialization professionals on job
• One can recrute two researchers
assistents who knows well Portuguese
prison system
Some theoretical findings
• Emerging links between social networks
inside prison and social networks in
popular neighborhoods
• Mixage media/police programs producing
and exploring insecurity fellings
• Hipothesys: penal selectivity main variable
is territory!
• Question: producing, labeling and
stigmatizing neighborhoods: calculating costs
Critical approach
• Repression of crime is not only (or even
mostly) penal procedings
• Corruption in planing building sector is
crime and produces crime
• Metropolis are explored by popular
media/police coalision (as in 19th century)
• Politics uses metropolis segmentation to
help competitive concentrations of capital
Critical approach (II)
• Speculative evaluation of territory looking
at finantial exploitation excludes non
competitive people
• It acumulate segregate neighborhoods,
under the rank of expected solvability
• Competitive (and sick) voyeurism mixes
with security purposes of surveillance
Applied methodology
• Comparing two cases on two diferent
towns (one more than 30 years old neighborhood of paisant
Portuguese immigrants into Lisbon; one few years old black neighborhood
)
• Look at the ways this neighborhoods has
been produced and labeled
• Interviews with professionals of all social
areas who works there (political, educational, police,
social security, religious, local planning professionals)
lodged at Amadora
End