A inversão da ordem na vida policial: sociabilidade prisional e práticas ilegais

Abstract

This thesis is the product of a research process about the inversion of order in police life derived from a field work conducted at the Military Police of Ceará State (PMCE)’s Penitentiary. The aim of this work was to think about the forms of sociability and the ways of living in a secluded environment. I sought to analyze, departing from the comprehension of prison sociability created by policemen and former policemen in the condition of convict, how do the processes of order inversion and of illegality production come to occur in police life. I tried to understand how policemen and former policemen live an inverted order in their condition of convicts at the PMCE’s Penitentiary. For such, I took ethnographic listening as a theoretical-methodological support; as well as appropriating the life narratives of convicts as indispensable components for the comprehension of such inversion. In sum, this thesis seeks to analyze how prison sociability changes the binary positioning of inmates-policemen in relation to the illegal practices conducted inside and outside that institution, that is, my research seeks to comprehend the production of sociability in a prison environment and its association with the practices that go tandem with illegalities present in the doings of the police and the subsequent order inversion in police activity and policemen life.