A pesquisa etnográfica com homens na fronteira entre o cárcere e a rua.

Abstract

This ethnographic study describes the processes of recovering freedom by men
who have lived the experience of criminal imprisonment in Brazil. It starts from the premise
that imprisonment sets off values, traumas, behaviors and attitudes that are present when
these subjects resume their lives after being released from prison. To find out whether or
not and to which extent imprisonment has been fixed on these subjects demanded a process
of work, whose basic premise was a long life experience with this “other.” The basis was the
narratives of men, former prisoners who were interviewed and followed. Michel Foucault and
Irving Goffman’s theoretical references were used to analyze the aspects of the imprisonment
regime present in the ones that were subject to imprisonment and to analyze the consequences
of this past of prison in the reconstruction of the identity of these subjects when they leave
it. This past that is present in their lives was analyzed, classified according to criteria of
individual and group memory, analyzing their resignifications based on Michael Pollak.