THE ECONOMIC-PUNITIVE LOGIC IN MUTATION: FROM THE SUBJECT AS A WORKMAN TO THE NON-SUBJECT AS RAW MATERIAL

Abstract

This work has as its scope to investigate the correlation existing in the binomial criminal control/economy when compared to modern and contemporary archetypes. Possessing as foundation studies of Rusche and Kirchheimer, Melossi and Pavarini, Wacquant, Giorgi among others, asserts the relevance of the theme for the critical debate concerning the penal systems and mechanisms of punishment linked to the political and economic structures. Similarly, and in real highlight, we observe the allocation and the significance of subjects inserted in these orders, transmuting from a subject as hand labor in a modern period, to a non-subject as raw material in a contemporary moment. This approach is justified insofar as significant economic transformations have broadly redefined the meanings of contemporary incarceration, challenging the modern paradigm of punishment.