RELIGIÃO E PREVENÇÃO CRIMINAL: O PAPEL DO GINTER NA PRESTAÇÃO DE ASSISTÊNCIA RELIGIOSA E DE CONTROLE SOCIAL NO SISTEMA PRISIONAL DO ESPÍRITO SANTO

Abstract

This study aimed to discuss how religious assistance can serve in the resocialization of prisoners and in the prevention of criminal recidivism, in addition to social control, focusing on the investigation of the work of GINTER (Interfaith Working Group of the Espírito Santo Department of Justice Holy). The prison system aims to remove from social life those who have committed crimes, that is, who violated the rules of living in society, however it is known that for various reasons, prison systems have not been able to perform the role of re-socializing these individuals, which does that those, when serving their sentences, often return to committing crimes that lead them back to prisons. Overcrowding and living conditions in prisons often provoke revolts manifested in the form of rebellions and scenes of violence, and the process of resocialization is increasingly distant. In this scenario, religious assistance appears, supported by current legislation, as a way of creating a bond between these incarcerated individuals and society, in a spirit of solidarity with humanity, due to the lack of a distinction between the terms and their purposes, this space of Religious assistance is associated with a religion. It is known that religion is an important means of social control and when the State is unable to achieve certain functions, in this case prison resocialization, religious assistance appears and within religious ideologies, it seeks to play this role. As a form of systematization, the work was divided into three chapters. In the first, the legal vision of the provision of religious assistance in prisons was presented with the legal norms relating to the provision of religious assistance, the purpose of the sentence and its criminal policy instincts, in addition to legal and sociological aspects of prison chaplaincy. In the second chapter, the intertwining of sociology and religion within the Law in the search for the construction of social peace was discussed, observing the issue of religion as a form of cohesion and social control, having as theoretical bases Émile Durkheim and Michel Foucault, despite the existing controversies on whether social control is positive or negative. The choice of the two authors is due to the fact that each has, in a way, created a thought about social coercion. The fact that there is no consensus among these thinkers on the topic addressed allows us to understand the various ways in which social coercion can present itself in the social structure, the role it assumes in different situations, as well as the different ways of dealing with the coercive element that is present in society. The third chapter was dedicated to the study of GINTER, its role and function in the rehabilitation of the convict. As a work methodology, a vast theoretical research on the subject will be used, including theorists such as Emile Durkheim, who presents the social perspective of religious assistance and Foucault, who presents it as social control. Despite being different perspectives, they are not antagonistic, since control is one of the ways for the cohesion of society. In addition to the literature review, a research was carried out, through a Case Study, with members of GINTER, in order to analyze how the practice of religious assistance in prisons works. It was noticed in this study that religious assistance contributes to the convict's resocialization process, improving the human aspects and giving the convict a better perspective of integration into social life, after serving his sentence, but it fulfills much more of a fulfilling function. of the gaps left by the State in the perspective of the conditions in prisons that the sense of religiosity.