Associação de Proteção e Assistência aos Condenados (APAC): An alternative based on restorative justice or a legitimization of the retributive system in Brazil?

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Welsem, Annekaat van (2019)

Associação de Proteção e Assistência aos Condenados (APAC): An alternative based on restorative justice or a legitimization of the retributive system in Brazil?

Master thesis | Latijns-Amerikastudies (BA)

The APAC (Association for the Protection and Assistance to the Convicted) is proposed as an alternative prison model. This paper offers an analysis of the APAC method in light of restorative justice and examines the extent to which APACs offer an alternative within a context of penitentiary crisis in Brazil. Whereas restorative justice was originally introduced as an attempt to abolish the prison, in recent decades restorative justice has appeared as a guideline for prison reform. The central hypothesis of this paper claims that although APACs inflict less harm than the traditional penitentiary system, identifying them as restorative is problematic because they continue to run along punitive lines and the APAC method runs the risk of legitimizing the prison as a logical response to conflict.

Author: Welsem, Annekaat van

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation: Public Policies in Latin America

Supervisors: Isla Monsalve, P.A.

ECTS Credits: 20

Language: en

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