Simple contributions to a historical and consubstantial reading of the criminal selectivity in Brazil

Abstract

This article intends to present reflections on the particularities of Latin American social control and, more specifically, on the violent character and extermination of the Brazilian penal system. Therefore, it will dialog with part of the accumulation of critical criminology to deepen a reading of the consubstantiality of social relations of gender,
class and race that allows us to perceive racism as a structuring and conditioning element of criminal control in the country. This will be accomplished through a narrative of important historical elements that demonstrate the constancy of the dependent character of our capitalism and the decisive social and racial segregation.