Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

Criminal policy takes on new shapes in Rio de Janeiro during the new coronavirus pandemic. The State expresses its ultra-conservative and punitive approach to manage the public health crisis in the precarious prison system, reducing the law and expanding the prison economy. The purpose of this text is to reflect on some elements introduced and / or reaffirmed during the pandemic in the prison system, such as the increase in family expenses, which with suspended visits, deliver more food and money, the voluntary work carried out by prisoners in the mass production of masks. and the consideration of the use of containers and alteration of prison architecture rules. As a methodology, the study used documents produced by MEPCT / RJ (institution that monitors and inspects places of deprivation of liberty in the state), and presents evidence to think of new dynamics in prison, along with a relevant review of literature to reflect on the issue. The paper also identifies the instrumentalization of the world health crisis for the agenda of criminal recrudescence in Brazil, guaranteeing profitability and capital reproduction.

This article, based on Marx's Social Theory and on the Brazilian Marxist social thought, aims to analyze the precariousness, the overexploitation of the workforce and the mystification of precariousness with the expropriation of rights. Thus, it highlights the particularities of Brazilian dependent capitalism and the marks of colonial slavery with the apprehension of the meaning of the expropriation of labor and the export of economic surplus. It highlights the current ultraneoliberal period enhanced by the government of Jair Bolsonaro, with the reinforcement of the culture of “entrepreneurship” via the “prosperity theology”, increasing the setbacks of labor rights.

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This article aims to point out elements for the understanding of the present crisis of liberal democracies, especially of rights as its fundamental component. It seeks to recover history in its political sense of building the predominant model in the West and to highlight some explanations of the crisis as being the crisis of the “liberal” component, that is, the guarantee of rights. This “model” was never presented as complete materiality for vast portions of the world population and even of the central states. The violation of rights by the States has always been a permanence in capitalist modernity. Several states in the "center" and "periphery" have gone through periods in which such violations are specifically recognized, such as European fascisms and Latin American dictatorships. At the moment when anti-liberal political forces ascend, uncommitted to the rights formally guaranteed in state and international orders, it is worth reflecting on the relationship they establish with this past of massive rights violations, pointing out that the fragility of the promises embodied in rights, including due to the incompleteness of the processes of overcoming the serious violations of the past, it is at the basis of the crisis of contemporary liberal democracy.

This article presents the indigenous problem as representative of the social issue in the Brazilian economic, social and spatial formation, as well as its expressions in contemporary times. The categories of land and territory, based on the centrality of work, are used as historical foundation of uneven and combined development. Since the formation of dependent capitalism in Latin America, under the exploitation and oppression of indigenous and black roots, the sense of slavery colonization has been perpetuated, a process marked by deep State violence with expropriation and overexploitation of the traditional peoples of the region. Expropriation is emphasized in the current urban context, with the continuous process of expelling these people from their lands, criminalization and theft of rights, in a supposedly democratic society. Land, territory and work are, therefore, three founding categories of the social issue in Latin America, which can only be understood from the centrality of the agrarian question.

The increase of enforced displacements in the world has been highlighted by data from international organizations. This article contextualizes contemporary international migration in Brazil as one of the multiple phenomena related to the impetus of capitalist expansion, especially since the early 2000s, when border immigration of nationalities such as Haitian, Congolese, Bengali and Senegalese have accelerated. Based on bibliographic references and document analysis, we discuss that, despite having achieved a recognized advanced legislation related to refuge and a recent migration law, in Brazil, the State management of the migratory issue is much more related to control and selectivity through extraordinary legal mechanisms, than through guarantees; This has led to a process of inclusion and exclusion of immigrants that goes back to the previous history of Brazilian migratory policy and aligned with international discourse and practices, with growing perspective of immigration being a security and criminalizing issue. As of 2016, the Brazilian departure from international commitments to protect the human rights of migrants has become evident, causing specific situations in the daily lives of these subjects, such as the absence or difficulty of access to health care services, as well as the perpetuation of the situation of provisional or undocumented migration.

The text focuses on the relationship between the repression of the working class and conservative forms of assistance. It proposes the hypothesis that such articulation constitutes one of the structuring axes of social policies in Brazilian dependent capitalism. This is an essay with a literature review starting from the Marxist criticism of social policy and using dependent capitalism as the category guide for analysis. Considering some of the main foundations of the Brazilian economic-social formation, we examine how dependent patterns, although they change in shape, are structural elements of the State and social policies. Based on this, we analyze how assistance and repression interact under neoliberalism, particularly from the worsening of the capital crisis after 2008. We conclude that we are facing a new pattern of coping with “social issues” in Brazil, where the advance of conservatism in the assistance field and more punitive as well as coercive actions via criminal policy are accentuated.

The article is the result of a bibliographic survey and action research at the Regional Council of Social Work of Rio de Janeiro (CRESS 7th Region). It aims to discuss the concept of childhood and the coercive dimension of social assistance. Faced with the violence promoted by the State, the impoverished childhood, far from an illusory happiness, has suffered severe setbacks. Social protection, which has one of its main pillars in social assistance policy, has revealed numerous contradictions. These became more evident in the period of major international events, when the criminalization of the poor by the State and the contradictions inherent in social policies culminated in violations of the rights of children and adolescents. The conclusion is that the State serves the economic interests of the dominant classes by repressing the population, regardless of age. CRESS, as a professional council that guides and supervises the professional practice of social workers, though not being a social movement or a union, has played a legitimate role in political organization and contributed to the mobilization of civil society in guaranteeing public rights of children and youth, as well as facing state coercion.