Tornozeleiras eletrônicas, mobilidades e construção de subjetividades: a constituição de uma infraestrutura de vigilância penal

Helena Lancellotti

doi:10.20336/rbs.941

Authors

Helena Lancellotti Professora do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Sul – Campus Restinga https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5674-4258

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.941

Keywords:

infrastructure, electronic ankle bracelets, subjectivities, mobility, objects

Abstract

This article is aimed at understanding the constitution of a criminal surveillance infrastructure that allows the (i)mmobility of people with electronic anklets in the city of Porto Alegre and the effects of this management in the daily lives of convicts. Electronic ankle bracelets have been the main technology used in the electronic monitoring of prisoners outside prison facilities. They carry promises of rehabilitation and of reduction of costs, prison overcrowding and surveillance. The operation of the electronic ankle bracelet occurs through the constitution of a criminal surveillance infrastructure, where human and non-human elements are connected at different scales, allowing its functionality, and whose effects are contingent. These connections were understood through multi-sited field work based on observation and interviews with professionals working in electronic monitoring in Porto Alegre, justice agents and with monitored people and their family networks, in addition to the analysis of booklets and legislation. Reflecting on this technology means understanding it as an object and as part of a surveillance infrastructure, in which a series of scales connect not only technical elements, but ways of governing, classifying and surveilling movements and of allowing or disallowing people's mobility.

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Author Biography

Helena Lancellotti, Professora do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Sul – Campus Restinga

Professora do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Sul –
Campus Restinga. Doutora em Antropologia Social pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em
Antropologia Social da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.

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