Economia Política da Pena e Neoliberalismo:

o big government carcerário

Abstract

This paper presents as a preliminary theoretical effort that intends to problematize the function within the neoliberal social organization. For this, a criminological deepening of the definition of neoliberalism as a theoretical and sociopolitical construction is sought to understand the current moment from the perspective of peripheral and dependent Brazilian and Latin American capitalism. Therefore, this work presents itself as a theoretical effort of bibliographical research from a reflexive critical bias, whose main objective is to contribute with analytical elements to the understanding of the problem of mass incarceration in the periphery of capitalism and how this policy changes the very understanding of purpose of the penalty.