Abstract

CARVALHO, Marina Wanderley Vilar de  and  CARRETEIRO, Teresa Cristina Othenio Cordeiro. Judiciary life history: reflections from the experience of alternative sentences. Rev. psicol. polít. [online]. 2013, vol.13, n.27, pp.351-364. ISSN 1519-549X.

This text explores the relations established with the justice by the ones who had served or have been serving "alternative sentences". It discusses, initially, what this penal modality represents and, thereafter, it goes to an analysis based on a research whose methodology focused on each individual's judiciary life history. The analysis of the narratives works as the basis for us to question the "modulations" the justice assumes in the life of those captured by the judiciary system: the practices of the Judiciary Power are modelled on each encounter situation between a citizen and the justice institution; such encounter being between a first one who decides about a second one's life seems to take the form of a modulatory mechanisms of existence. The text ends with a psychoanalytical discussion about justice and the importance of building other forms of conflict resolution, from an ethical perspective.

Keywords : Alternative sentences; Life history; Judicialization; Subjectivity production; Political Psychology.

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