Prison System in Portugal and Social Theory António Pedro Dores ISCTE, 17 Maio

Prison System Inquisition, slave’s traffic and death penalty abolitions – practical and theoretical traditions Conciliation between doctrine of equality and social inequality Modernization: stigma and classification Prison reform: between punishment and rehabilitation Portugal: From prison mafia discovery till security modernisation “nothing works” vs “everything is all right”

Justice and moral crisis Revolution and the Law (EEC and judge recruitment) Casa Pia, crime at private universities and political parties Corruption and ethical political debates Justice system democratised and not accountable (irresponsible) Law at prison life as building feuds

Practical results 3x European mean of time incarceration Disrespect of hierarchy of constitutional laws (administrative punishments and persecutions without assessment) Health care, impunity and one of the highest prison death rate in European Council Threatens to dismiss political debate on human rights inside prisons

Violence in Giddens Giddens, Anthony (1985) The Nation-State and Violence, Cambridge, Polity. Industrialism (and environment) Private property (class) Surveillance (Poliarchy) Military industrial sector Social Movements Giddens, Anthony (1985) The Nation-State and Violence, Cambridge, Polity. Ecological Movements Labour Movements Democratic Movements Peace Movements

Structuring Social Violence (Ab)uses of people Anthroponomic production (Berteaux) Elevation Purification of the spirit Submission spirit (exclusion) stigma, social division Prohibitionist spirit (control) Rationalization (classification hide secrets, cf. child abuse) Revivalism spirit (social justice ) Love and violence (body and mind) Bio ethical Institutions dispositions Individuals intentions Families faith Normative Socio- economic

Social Modernizing Dinamics Solidarity cycleEmancipation cycle Social justice Exclusion Control social movements closure racionalization criminalization revolution institutionalization closure racionalization institutionalization social movements criminalization revolution

Contradictory modernizing dinamics Social justice Exclusion Control social movements criminalization revolution closure racionalization institutionalization criminalization closure revolution racionalizationsocial movements institutionalization

Sociology of instability a theory of the sociological knowledge The objective conditions of the existence of sociology The subjective conditions of sociologist’s education The tradition of scientific success of social theories Critisizing Max Weber Stabilization and destabilization – social values and social emotions Social movements Social apathy