Comparative case analysis reveals how electronic monitoring reframes carceral dynamics in Portugal and Brazil, highlighting blurred boundaries between confinement and freedom.
Key Points
To examine how electronic monitoring operates along the carceral continuum across social representations, political-institutional systems, and lived experiences.
Comparative qualitative analysis of electronic monitoring frameworks in Portugal and Brazil.
Investigation across three interconnected axes: media representations, political and institutional structures, and individual lived experiences.
Electronic monitoring unsettles traditional binary distinctions between confinement and freedom, punishment and rehabilitation, and presence and absence.
The system operates across a dynamic spectrum of invisibility, visibility, and hypervisibility that reconfigures the spatial, temporal, and relational dimensions of punishment.