TY - JOUR AU - Reis, Marisol de Paula PY - 2016/03/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Corruption and Violence at São Paulo's Penitenciary Prison JF - SOCIAL REVIEW. International Social Sciences Review / Revista Internacional de Ciencias Sociales JA - revSOCIAL VL - 5 IS - 1 SE - Research articles DO - 10.37467/gka-revsocial.v5.378 UR - https://journals.eagora.org/revSOCIAL/article/view/378 SP - 207-220 AB - <p>The present work has as object of study the Penitentiary Security ex-Agent (ex-ASP) who is in prison regime by the crime of passive corruption (Article 317 - Brazilian Penal Code). The study answered the following questions: 1) What do staffs and ex-staffs think on the practice of corruption exercised between institutional staffs and some prisoners inside the Sao Paulo's Prisons? 2) What are the representations for the conduct of the ASP's? 3) How do these representations explain the inclusion of some staffs in illegal activity by way of corruption? What is the relationship between corruption and violence? This is a qualitative research with questionnaires and interviews script sticking to the viewpoint of those involved in acts of corruption (the ex-ASP's) and the speeches of the staffs in the exercises of function. The social representations was used as theoretical and methodological axes to present the explanatory elements (material and symbolic) that guide the conduct of this professional category about the corruption and the relationship of this practice with the intramural violence. Authors such as Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Wieviorka, Alves-Mazzoti, Denise Jodelet and Campos Coelho contributed to the discussion proposed.</p> ER -