Cárcere e Vulnerabilidade Social.

Abstract

In a context of increasing crime and questioning, driven by changing social, economic and cultural factors that permeate the modern Western societies, among them Brazil, lives up a historic moment of profound questioning of the legitimacy and effectiveness of the criminal justice system. From the theoretical premise that the state of social vulnerability not only significantly influences the ability of individuals to overcome the present difficulties in social interaction and develop strategies aimed at better conditions of welfare, but also guides the exercise of selective system criminal justice, the present study, drawing on a qualitative methodology, seeks to understand the effects of incarceration as a step in the process of criminalization, in the life histories of graduates of the Regional Prison in Pelotas, interfering in the arrangement of their assets and strategies use as well as the set of opportunities that the market, the state and civil society offer them.