Disorder and progression

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In prison, progression is the regime which allows the convicted person to serve only 1/6 of his sentence. At school, what makes the student progress, even if he has not learned anything. It is the State that neither educates in the education system nor re-educates in the prison system. The bet is that the student unable to understand the multiplication table of 2 will magically recover later, when he reaches the multiplication table of 7. That the criminal will acquire, in the street, the moral principles that he lacked before the short period of confinement.

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Both developments are well intentioned: not making failure a certificate of failure, encouraging resocialization. In practice, it is an imaginary pedagogy. One delays failure, the other induces recurrence. The result is functional illiteracy and a feeling of impunity. Those who stole from INSS retirees will soon be released (if they are ever arrested). The same goes for the corrupt politician or the putschist, for the murderer, the drug trafficker, the militiaman.

When public authorities do not act, the desire for justice, inherent in human beings, is transformed into a desire for justice. On social media, there is no shortage of videos of violent reactions to robberies and beatings by thieves and rapists – most with comments such as “satisfying video”, “successfully canceled beer”, “the one who takes pity is the piano”, “I like happy endings”. It is the society that adapts to “the inhuman shadow of lynchers”.

Recently, a judge in Rio ordered the release of a 21-year-old “suspect” with 86 criminal records (arrested seven times in the last three years) and his accomplice. The argument:

— It cannot be assumed that the accused will commit crimes again, because in the democratic rule of law there is no room for the exercise of futurology.

The 87th arrest (who knew!) took place about a month later. A judge in Goiás released another “suspect” with a history of homicide, illegal possession of a weapon, theft and trafficking.

—You again, Kaique? Help me help you — the judge asked during the custody hearing.

Released, the boy, also aged 21, was killed six months later during a confrontation with the police. His release certainly didn’t help him much.

All the righteous indignation at the number of feminicides and acts of violence against women should be accompanied by a reflection on the policy of prematurely returning abusers to the streets and what makes so many men feel safe to do what they do. Perhaps incivility, due to lack of education, at home and at school. Perhaps the certainty of impunity.