James Gacek (2022) Portable Prisons: Electronic Monitoring and the Creation of Carceral Territory. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press
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University of Brasília (UnB)
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University of Brasília (UnB) Brazil
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University of Brasília (UnB) Brazil
Abstract
Cristina Zackseski, Welliton Caixeta Maciel and Vinícius de Souza Assumpção review Portable Prisons: Electronic Monitoring and the Creation of Carceral Territory by James Gacek
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Author Biographies
Cristina Zackseski is an Associate Professor at the Law School of the University of Brasília (UnB). She has a post-doctorate in Law from the University of Barcelona, a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Brasília (UnB), a master's degree in Law from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC),a degree in Law from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). She is editor-in-chief of the Latin American Journal of Criminology (RELAC) and coordinator of the Center for Studies on Violence and Security at the University of Brasília (NEViS/UnB). She has experience in Law, with an emphasis on Criminal Law, working mainly on the following topics: Criminal Policy, Criminal Law, Criminology, Public Security and Human Rights. She is the author of the book "La tecnología es la nueva prisión: evaluación de riesgo en el uso de la monitorización electrónica", published in Barcelona/Spain.
Welliton Caixeta Maciel has a master's degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Brasilia (UnB), a degree in Law from the University Center of the Federal District (UDF), and in Social Sciences - Sociology and Anthropology, from the University of Brasilia (UnB). Currently, he is doing his doctoral studies in Law, State and Constitution at the University of Brasilia (PPGD/UnB), having carried out fieldwork during a doctoral stay at the Centre de recherches Sociologiques sur le Droit et les Institutions Pénales (CESDIP/CNRS) and at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), in France. He is a professor of Anthropology or Law at the Law School of the University of Brasília (UnB). He is a founding member of the Latin American Forum for the Anthropology of Law (FLAD) and is a member of the Brazilian Institute of Criminal Sciences (IBCCrim). He has experience in Criminology, Anthropology of Law, Sociology of Violence and Punishment; with an emphasis on empirical research about Criminal Justice System, Public Security Policy, Penitentiary Policy, Domestic Violence, Masculinity Studies and Human Rights. He has been studying Electronic Monitoring (EM) from an ethnographic approach, as an alternative to serving sentences and measures in the community (Probation).
Vinícius de Souza Assumpção has a degree and a master's degree in Law from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). He is a PhD Candidate in Law, State and Constitution at the University of Brasília (UnB). He is currently a professor of Criminal Procedural Law at the UniRuy Wyden University Center, in Salvador/Bahia. He is President of the Bahiano Institute of Criminal Procedural Law (IBADPP) and Director of Brazilian Institute of Criminal Science (IBCCrim). He has experience in the field of Law, with an emphasis on Criminal Sciences, working mainly on the following topics: Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure as precursors of Human Rights, and Critical Criminology, Racial Issues and Human Rights. He studies Electronic Monitoring (EM) with a focus on ethnic-racial issues.