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A cidade "perigosa" e sua instituição "tranquilizadora": o Recife no contexto da reforma prisional do Oitocentos
The "dangerous" city and its "reassuring" institution: Recife in the context of the Eight hundred prison reform
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Abstract This article emphasizes the discussion around the representations and effective uses of the House
of Detention in Recife in the context of the empire's prison reform. Symbol of civility and penal
modernity, but also of control and public security, the House of Detention in Recife was perceived
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This article emphasizes the discussion around the representations and effective uses of the House
of Detention in Recife in the context of the empire's prison reform. Symbol of civility and penal
modernity, but also of control and public security, the House of Detention in Recife was perceived
by city managers as an instrument whose purpose was to settle and remedy the criminal
practices of a portion of the population considered to be unruly and prone to crime. On the other
hand, a group of popular segments, far from endorsing this representation of the prison
institution, appropriated the prison as a commercial zone. Between the "reassuring institution"
and the "house of commerce", between the representations of the elite and the effective uses of
the institution, we will reconstruct aspects of the history of prison reform as experienced in Recife
in the second half of the 19th century.... view less
Keywords
Brazil; correctional institution; nineteenth century
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Free Keywords
Recife Detention House; Penal Modernity; Trade
Document language
Portuguese
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 352-376
Journal
Revista Maracanan (2020) 25
ISSN
2359-0092
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0