Criminal Policy Movements and Legal Education

• Main Authors: Thula Rafaela de Oliveira Pires, Gisele Alves De Lima Silva
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação em Direito (CONPEDI) 2016-10-01
• Series: Revista de Pesquisa e Educação Jurídica
• Subjects: Política criminal, Ensino jurídico, Criminologia crítica, Estudos decoloniais, Unifeso
• Online Access: http://www.indexlaw.org/index.php/rpej/article/view/200

The article's intention is to make an analyse of the emerging criminal policy movements in Brazil, especially after the 1980 decade, and their influence on legal education. Based on empirical research in Law Course UNIFESO (Teresópolis- Rio de Janeiro), it is sought to identify the political and criminal discourses prevalent in positions of hegemonic power among the Law scholars. Beyond the necessity of interdisciplinary approach, it is defended a more radical critique of the knowledge production process, with the affiliation of decolonial perspective, fundamental for the deconstruction of punitive normalization standards adopted by the modern States, of colonial slave matrix.