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(2024), "Index", Dal Santo, L. and Sozzo, M. (Ed.) Punishment in Latin America: Explorations from the Margins (Perspectives on Crime, Law and Justice in the Global South), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 219-225. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83797-328-620241016

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INDEX

Abbreviated justice

, 77

Abbreviated procedure

, 64–67

Abolition of slavery

, 31

Absolutism

, 23

Accusatorial/adversarial model

, 60, 62, 65, 67n12

Activists

, 62–63

Actuarial justice

, 3, 165

Actuarial methods

, 135, 167n4, 168

Actuarial-managerial ideas

, 171

Actuarialism

, 164–165

in Argentina and Chile

, 170–173

Adapted-actuarialism

, 171

Adjudicative model of criminal law

, 164

Afonsinas Ordinances

, 23

Agricultural penal colony

, 31

Aljube Jail

, 26

Americanization

, 63–64, 75

Andean Community of Nations

, 41

Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA)

, 41, 45–46

Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication (ATPDE)

, 41

Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Agreement (ATPDEA)

, 46

Anti-drug policies

, 119

Argentina

, 60, 204

actuarialism and managerialism in

, 170–173

criminal justice reform

, 60–64

“effectiveness and efficiency” and “abbreviated procedure”

, 64–67, 81

dominant and legitimized mode of sentencing

, 70–77

insecurity

, 80

Province of Santa Fe

, 78–79

translation and “weak” Americanization in “law on the books”

, 67–70

Argentinean criminal justice system

, 204

Aryan culture

, 32

Assessment instruments

, 134–136

Atlas-ti programme

, 93

Authority

, 102

Bajo el Durazno

, 211

Body

, 146

Brazil

, 20

Brazilian colonial formation

, 23–24

Brazilian elites

, 35

Brazilian naturalism

, 29–33

Brazilian penitentiary system

, 20

Brazilwood

, 21–22

considerations

, 33–35

discipline in Brazilian colonial formation

, 28–29

labor problem and punitive practices

, 22–25

post-abolition

, 29–33

slave quarters to first jails

, 25–27

Brazilian social thought

, 33

Brazilian Welfare State

, 33

Brazilwood

, 21–22

Bricolage

, 191

Bureaucratic entities

, 168

Capital accumulation

, 23

Capital creation

, 24

Capital Jail

, 25–26

Capital punishment

, 152

Capoeiras

, 32

Carceral anthropology perspective

, 146

Cartagena Declaration

, 45

Casa Grande e Senzala (“The Masters and the Slaves”)

, 33

Cattle farming

, 25

Celerity

, 66n9

Cerro Atajo

, 211

Chile

actuarialism and managerialism in

, 170–173

prison management in

, 94–96

Chilean prison service (Gendarmería de Chile)

, 91, 93–94

Chilean prison system

, 91

Circular causality

, 110

Citizen security

, 6

City Council

, 210

Civil war

, 20

Civilisation

, 9

Closed-circuit television (CCTV)

, 98

Coffee farmers

, 31

Colombia

, 41, 46

Colonial dungeons

, 27

Colonial knowledge

, 5

Colonial punitive practices

, 23

Colonialism

, 4, 33

Coloniality of penality

, 9

Colonised subjects

, 5

Community policing

, 190

organizations

, 187

Conciencia Solidaria (Solidary Consciousness)

, 211

Confiscations

, 98

Continental law

, 155

Control

, 92, 98

Coordination

, 122–123

Corporal punishment

, 21, 23, 150–151

of enslaved people

, 28n3

Corporate environmental harms/crimes, immunity of

, 211–214

Correctional model

, 10

Counter-reformist

, 62

Court House of Correction

, 30

Crime

, 135

Crime control

, 44

Global North and new trends in

, 166–170

Criminal Code of the Empire

, 23

Criminal dangerousness

, 140

Criminal justice

, 9–10

actors

, 80–81

harsh selectivity of

, 207–211

policy

, 97

practitioners

, 168

system

, 32, 164

Criminal justice reform

, 60–64

processes

, 166

in Province of Buenos Aires

, 171–172

Criminal policies

, 40

Criminal Procedure Code (Law 12734)

, 64–65, 209

Criminal question

, 4–5, 7, 11

Criminalisation

, 203

Criminogenic factors

, 136

Criminological positivism

, 34

Criminological research

, 40

Criminologists

, 7

Criminology

, 4, 6

Critical thought

, 11

Culebras

, 116

Cultural analysis of death penalty

, 152

Cultural hegemony

, 5

Cultural values

, 44

Culturalism

, 29–33

Dangerousness

, 133, 138

Death

, 152

Death penalty

, 23, 152

Del lado de acá

, 170–173

Del lado de allá

, 166–170

Deliberative Council

, 210

Democratic justice

, 65, 72

Department of Justice

, 63

Department of State

, 63

Dependency

, 4

Diagnostic tools

, 133–136

Disadvantaged social groups

, 110

Disciplinary power

, 21, 28, 35

Discipline in Brazilian colonial formation

, 28–29

Dissemination

, 4

“Dos por uno” (two for one) policy

, 51

Drug trafficking

, 45, 80

Drug-enforcement

, 48–52

Drug-related crimes

, 52

Drugs

, 43, 45, 111, 119

Dungeon prisons

, 25–26

Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

, 51

Economic volatility

, 44

Ecuador

, 40

criminalization processes

, 41

Ecuadorian penal real

, 41

punitive imperialism

, 48–52

punitive repression particularities in Ecuador

, 44–48

punitive turn

, 42–43

Ecuadorian politics

, 44

“Effectiveness and efficiency”

, 64–67, 81

El Algarrobo Assembly

, 210

Empirical criminology

, 138

England

, 24

Environmental harms

, 202

Environmental selectivity

, 202

Environmental victimisation

, 202, 204–205

Environmental victims resistance

, 206–207

Environmental/green victimology

, 202–203

Epistemological vigilance

, 185

Eugenics

, 32

Eurocentrism

, 150

European immigration

, 31

European theoretical models

, 23

Evidence-based policy

, 135

Exclusion

, 110–111

Extralegal

, 184

Extralegality

, 185

Failed punishment

, 146

Failed states

, 146

Families

, 110–111

Family networks

, 116–117

Female poverty

, 51

Feminization of poverty

, 51

Foucauldian thesis of carceral archipelago

, 119

Free Africans

, 27

Free labor force

, 24

Free trade

, 30

Free Trade Agreements

, 46

Gangs

, 80, 113

Gendarmería

, 94–95, 97, 102

Global North

, 20, 34, 110, 132, 152, 165, 203

and new trends in crime control

, 166–170

Global peripheries

, 2

Global South

, 6–7, 20, 41, 132, 196

Gold and mining cycle

, 25

Green criminology

, 202–203

Historical contexts

, 44

Holland

, 24

Human resources

, 139

Humanization of punishment

, 150

Hybrid state-vigilante formations

, 190

Hybridization

, 188

Ideological relations and processes

, 5

Illegal economies

, 111

Imperialism

, 4

Importation

, 112

Imprisonment

, 24

Inca’s two bodies

, 147–151

Incarceration rates

, 43

Incentives

, 31

Infanticide

, 52

Informality

, 10

Innovation

, 7

Inquisitorial model

, 60, 62, 67n12

Insecurity

, 80

Insecurity crisis

, 61

Institutional bricolage

, 190

Institutional frailty

, 44

Institutionalisation

, 5–7

Instrument users, evaluations by

, 139–140

Intangible’ aspects of prison policy

, 132

Integrity principle

, 134

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

, 137–138

Internalisation of colonial mentality

, 5

International organization

, 60n1

Irmaos (brothers)

, 120

Jails

, 25

Jesuits

, 28–29

Judge

, 69

Juicio abreviado

, 173

Justice system

, 23

Knowledge production and exchange

, 4–8

La Modelo (Bogotá)

, 146

Labor problem and punitive practices

, 22–25

Labor shortage

, 23

Latin America

, 40, 112

criminal justice reform processes in

, 62

criminology

, 4

modern’ penality in

, 9

penal dynamic, institutions and practices in

, 3

prison condition in

, 151–156

slum

, 112–123

Latin American penalty

, 8

Latin American prison systems

, 137

Law 108

, 49–50, 52

Law in action

, 64

Law in books

, 64

“Law on the books”

, 67–70

Leakage of meaning

, 190

Left-wing social movements

, 189

Legal discourse

, 149, 151

Legal order

, 193

Legal reform

, 63, 68

Legal transplant

, 67

Liberal discourse

, 147–151

Liberal penal discourses

, 149

Los Nuevos Defensores

, 210

“Managerial justice” program

, 61, 65, 66n10

Managerial practices within courtrooms

, 170

Managerialism

, 95n17, 164–165, 169, 169n6

in Argentina and Chile

, 170–173

Managerialization

, 169n6

Manual labor

, 29

Marginal criminological realism

, 7

Marginal position

, 11

Marginalisation

, 8, 11

Marketization

, 169

Marxist thought

, 20

Mass incarceration

, 111

“Master and slave” mentality

, 35

Matricide

, 52

Mental colonialism

, 5

Metamorphosis of theoretical vocabularies

, 7, 9

Metropolitan thinking

, 170

Military format

, 94

Miscegenation

, 32–33

Mixed economy

, 10

Mixed model

, 65

Mob violence

, 190

“Modern and civilized” penitentiary project

, 22

‘Modern’ penality

, 9

Modernity

, 9

Modernization

, 71

Moral imperatives

, 195–196

Moral reform

, 29

National Criminal Procedure Code

, 65

National Institute of Rehabilitation (INR)

, 132, 137

National Offender Management Service (NOMS)

, 135

National Rehabilitation Institute (INR)

, 95n15

Neighborhood

, 111

Neo-liberal penality thesis

, 41

Neoliberal ethos

, 61

Neoliberal logic

, 44

Neoliberal model

, 41

Neoliberal policies

, 51, 95n16

Neoliberalism

, 40, 44

“Neopositivist” approach

, 134

Neutralization of violence

, 151

New management

, 95n17

New penology

, 133, 165

New Penology, The

, 166–167

New Public Management (NPM)

, 165, 169

Nigerian vigilantes

, 190

North American Political Science Approach

, 191–195

Northern theories

, 4–5, 8

Nuda vida (bare life)

, 153

Offender Assessment System (OASys)

, 132, 135–136, 139

adoption process, coverage, and use of information

, 138–139

Open-pit mining

, 204–205

Optional referendum

, 208n11

Order, management of

, 91–93

Ordinances

, 23

Organisational dynamics

, 99

Original colonialism

, 9

Over-criminalisation of peaceful local resistance

, 207–211

Penal Enlightenment

, 20–21

Penal imperialism

, 41, 47

Penal outcomes

, 77

Penal policy

, 40, 168

Penal power

, 47

Penal reform

between Brazilian naturalism and culturalism

, 29–33

discourse

, 21

Peripheral

, 11

penality

, 9

punishment

, 8–11

Peripherality

, 3

Peru

, 3, 45, 120

Philippine Ordinances

, 23

Physical violence

, 147

Pink Tide wave

, 43

“Pink tide” movement

, 132

Plan Cordillerano Norte

, 204

Plea bargaining

, 67, 70

Policy

, 40, 45

Policy transfer

, 48

Political instability

, 44

Political scientists

, 192

Politics of language

, 189

Popular illegalisms

, 20

Positivist criminology

, 7, 32

Post-abolition

, 29–33

Post-release support

, 94

Postgraduate degrees

, 6

Power

, 21

“Pragmatic” legitimization

, 73

“Pre-modern” traits of Brazilian society

, 33

Precautionary measure

, 208n7

Preparatory activity

, 187

Presigangas

, 26

Primacy of economic rationality

, 134

Primitive accumulation

, 24

Prison

, 3, 6, 9, 90, 145–146

condition in Latin America

, 151–156

culture

, 91n2

economy

, 116

experience in Latin America

, 152–153

history

, 20

Inca’s two bodies and liberal discourse

, 147–151

intelligence

, 98

interactions

, 110

officials

, 98

policy

, 132

prison-form

, 21

prison-slum continuum

, 112

punishment

, 149

as punishment

, 24

reform

, 28, 131–132

social order

, 90

staff

, 103

systems

, 137

violence

, 151

Prison gangs

, 110, 113

prison gang-form

, 111

Prison Gendarmería Corps

, 94

Prison management

, 91, 131–132

in Chile

, 94–96

considerations

, 103–104

findings on daily life in prisons

, 97–99

management of order

, 91–93

methodology

, 93

operationalising prison order

, 96–97

rewards and punishment

, 99–103

Private citizens

, 187

Private security firms

, 187

Private voluntary agency

, 187

Pro-convicts

, 102

Problematisation of prison order

, 92

Professional discretion principle

, 134

Profits

, 24

Protestantism

, 21

Province of Buenos Aires

, 171–172

Province of Santa Fe

, 78–79

Public defender (PD)

, 73, 75n25

Public Defense Service

, 65

Public management principles

, 95n17

Public Ministry for the Prosecution

, 65, 68

Public security

, 6

Punishment

, 1–3, 28–29, 41, 44, 99–103, 146, 166

knowledge production and exchange

, 4–8

peripheral punishment

, 8–11

Punishment and society’

, 2–3

Punitive imperialism

, 41, 48–52

Punitive power

, 146

Punitive repression particularities in Ecuador

, 44–48

Punitive swamps

, 10

Punitive turn

, 40–43

Pure accusatory model

, 65

Pure-actuarial ideas

, 171

Pure-managerial ideas

, 171

Purity

, 79

Questione meridionale

, 34

Racial democracy

, 33

Racial homogeneity

, 111

Racial pride

, 33

Racial purification

, 33

Racism

, 32

Radicality

, 79

Raids

, 98

Rasphuis

, 21–22

Recife House of Detention

, 30

Reform processes

, 61–62

Reformers

, 62–63

Regeneration

, 30

Regional Prosecutor

, 67

Rehabilitation

, 137–138

Repression

, 44

Reputation

, 115

Resistance

, 203

Revolution of 1930

, 33

Rewards

, 99–103

“Rights-based” justice

, 60–61, 65, 72

Risk

, 92, 98

Risk assessment tools

, 136

Risk model

, 131, 133

and use of diagnostic tools

, 133–136

Risk paradigm

, 132, 134

Risk-Need-Responsiveness (RNR) model

, 132–134

adoption of RNR model by Uruguayan prison system

, 137–140

Romanticization

, 150

Roraima (Brazil)

, 146

San Antonio Texas Anti-Drug Summit

, 45

San Francisco Vigilance Committee

, 184

San Miguel (Chile)

, 146

Secondary prisonization

, 116

Segregation measures

, 28–29

Selective incapacitation

, 167n3

Self-defense committee (comité de autodefensa)

, 184

Self-government

, 34

Sentencing, dominant and legitimized mode of

, 70–77

Service Peace and Justice (SERPAJ)

, 207

Sexual violence

, 135

Simplicity

, 150

Simplification

, 66n9

Skyrocketing prison population

, 111

Slave

, 23

labor

, 25

quarters to first jails

, 25–27

trade

, 30

Slavery

, 4, 31, 33

Slum

, 112

continuous flow of incarcerated population

, 113–114

coordination

, 122–123

discipline

, 119–120

economies

, 117–119

expectations

, 114–115

family networks

, 116–117

prison shapes

, 119

regulation

, 121–122

trajectories

, 115–116

Social differentiation

, 111

Social networks

, 115–116

Social order

, 110

Social reintegration

, 100, 102

Social relations

, 92n4

Social sciences

, 7

Societal norms

, 44

Societal transformations in Western societies

, 42

Society scholarship

, 1–3

Socio-economic model

, 40

Sociological studies

, 90

Sociologies of punitive turn

, 40

Sociopolitical order

, 186

South American context

, 41

Southern criminology

, 202–203

Southern green victimology

, 203

Spinhuis

, 21

State coercion

, 186–187

State-corporate symbiosis

, 208

Structured “second generation” instruments

, 135

Structured clinical judgment

, 135

Subalternity

, 4

Technical staff, evaluations by

, 139–140

Topo Chico (Mexico)

, 146

Transfers

, 98

Translation and “weak” Americanization in “law on the books”

, 67–70

Transparency

, 71

Trial-avoiding conviction mechanism

, 170n7

Tutchhuis

, 21

Twilight institution

, 190

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC)

, 203

Under-criminalisation of violent repression

, 207–211

Uruguay

, 131

adoption of RNR model by Uruguayan prison system

, 137–140

methodological strategy

, 136–137

prison management in

, 131–132

risk model and use of diagnostic tools

, 133–136

US agenda of the War on Drugs

, 119

Utilitarianism

, 20–21

Vagrants

, 32

Values

, 185

Venezuela

, 110, 115

Vigilante acts

, 187

Vigilante groups

, 188

Vigilante justice

, 186–187

Vigilante violence

, 195

Vigilantism

, 3, 184

classic definitions

, 186–188

as hybrid institution

, 189–191

North American Political Science Approach

, 191–195

promising solutions

, 195–196

Violations of public order

, 32

Violence

, 92, 153

Visión Sostenible (Sustainable Vision)

, 211

White Aryans

, 31

Whitening process

, 31

Workhouses

, 24