A covid-19 e o “velho normal” no sistema prisional: uma análise de decisões judiciais na execução penal em uma comarca da Zona da Mata de Minas Gerais diante das recomendações do Conselho Nacional de Justiça durante a pandemia

Abstract

This research analyses the judicial decisions of the Criminal Execution Court of the Judicial District of Juiz de Fora (state of Minas Gerais) during the Covid-19 pandemic, specifically those involving the application of home confinement and/or electronic monitoring between March 2020 and November 2021. The main objective is to comprehend the procedure behind and the influencing factors of the judges decisions by a theoretical-methodological framework of a holistic-sociological approach in sentencing theory. Assuming the radical criminology critics and aligned with the so-called political economy of punishment, the research intended to put in perspective the judicial activity studied and the structural issues of Brazilian prision system as well as the conflict of ideas that took place in Brazil`s politics about the public health emergency.