Refutações à cultura da violência sob o olhar da criminologia pós-crítica e um novo paradigma de Justiça Criminal baseado na Cultura de Paz

Abstract

The present study deals with aspects of the postmodern punitive culture characteristic of a Media Criminology. Excerpts and manifestations are brought that reflect some punitive ideals in Brazilian society, which are refuted from the theoretical contribution of Critical, Interactionist and Post-Critical Criminology. A brief study is carried out on the case of the rebellion that took place in the Penitentiary of Alcaçuz, in the State of Rio Grande do Norte, to then introduce the notion and the need to promote a Culture of Peace as an alternative to Criminal Justice. The work is essentially dialectical. It uses the rational procedure that transits from the general to the particular (deductive reasoning) and the empirical procedure by going from particular findings to the general (inductive reasoning), insofar as critical assertions are produced, using theoretical and empirical research, in addition to a qualitative approach through an interview and discourse analysis. It concludes that punitivism and the culture of violence are the result of an emotional and irrational reactive practice, but that it can be transmuted through learning and commitment to a Culture of Peace.