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1. Introduction Inmate Governance in Latin America. Context, trends and conditions -- Part I. Emergence and Transformations -- 2. Governance and Legitimacy in Brazilian Prison: From Solidarity Committees to the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) in São Paulo -- 3. Tales from La Catedral: the Narco and the Reconfiguration of Prison Social Order in Colombia -- 4. Provós, Representantes, Agentes: The Evolution of Prison Governance Arrangements in the Dominican Republic's Prison Reform Process -- Part II. Dynamics and variations -- 5. The carceral reproduction of neoliberal order: Power, ideology and economy in Venezuelan prison -- 6. Enduring lock-up. Co-governance and exception in Nicaragua's hybrid carceral system -- 7. Co-governance of dialogue: hegemony in a Brazilian prison -- 8. A Decolonial and Depatriarchal approach to Women's Imprisonment: Co-governance, legal pluralism and gender at Santa Mónica prison, Perú -- 9. Evangelical Wings and Prison Governance in Argentina -- Part III. Alternatives? -- 10. The 'prisoner-entrepreneur'. Responsibilization and co-governance at Punta de Rieles prison in Uruguay -- 11. Radical Alternatives to Criminal Detention -- 12. Epilogue. Inmate Governance in Latin America. Comparative and theoretical notes.

Este artículo aborda el problema de la puesta en funcionamiento por los tribunales de la figura del abuso del derecho en relación a los derechos de incidencia colectiva (art. 14 in fine del CCC). El análisis de la jurisprudencia muestra que el empleo aún no se ha consolidado en una verdadera doctrina judicial, pero el proceso de construcción ya se ha iniciado y para su continuidad se requiere una mejor comprensión del perfil de la figura —en el marco del proyecto de las líneas de diseño del CCC—, lo que incluye cuatro puntos clave: la genealogía de la norma, su diferenciación con los supuestos de conflictos de derechos individuales y colectivos, las directrices para su funcionamiento y las pretensiones judiciales a que puede dar lugar.

Como es sabido desde fines de los años 1990s procesos de cambio político decisivo emergieron en diversos contextos nacionales de América del Sur, ligados al ascenso de alianzas y programas políticos construidos en torno a vocabularios vinculados más o menos estrechamente a las tradiciones locales de la Izquierda, con distintos niveles de radicalidad e importantes diferencias entre sí, ligadas también al conjunto de elementos que integraban la situación política peculiar de cada escenario...

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This paper analysed the connection between the emergence and consolidation of a postneoliberal political program and alliance – Kirchnerism – and penal policies in Argentina. Three key moments are identified in this recent period. After the experience of an intense punitive turn during the 1990s and early 2000s, Kirchnerist political alliances tried to deploy a progressive political discourse and agenda on penal issues. Nevertheless, this initially coincided with a strong wave of penal populism 'from below' that continued the precedent trend towards increasing punitiviness. Since 2005, and for a brief moment, this tendency stopped. However, after that and during the presidencies of Fernandez de Kirchner a more volatile and contradictory scenario was generated. The incarceration rate between 2002 and 2014 in Argentina grew substantially as did the rate of convictions. Meanwhile the percentage of suspended sentences as part of the total convictions and the percentage of custodial sanctions both fell. Especially in relation to incarceration, these levels of change are not as stark as those of the preceding decades. However, the trends persist. Therefore, the question of how to transcend the dynamics of the punitive turn remains a pending and urgent political subject. The article argues the importance of analysing why a punitive turn is interrupted and presents an explanation of it.

In the last two decades, there has been an extraordinary growth in incarceration rates in South America, with some variations across national contexts but generally in line with the same trend. Twenty years ago, incarceration rates were relatively low in most countries in the region; despite that knowledge, it has proved difficult to reconstruct the official data for that period. In 1992, with the exclusion of the small countries with less than one million inhabitants in the Northern region of South America such as Guyana, French Guyana and Surinam, only three countries had 100 prisoners or more per 100,000 inhabitants: Uruguay (100), Venezuela (133) and Chile (154) (see Figure 1). Several other national contexts reflected 'Scandinavian' rates, such as Argentina (62), Peru (69), Ecuador (75) and Brazil (74).
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This paper analysed the connection between the emergence and consolidation of a postneoliberal political program and alliance – Kirchnerism – and penal policies in Argentina. Three key moments are identified in this recent period. After the experience of an intense punitive turn during the 1990s and early 2000s, Kirchnerist political alliances tried to deploy a progressive political discourse and agenda on penal issues. Nevertheless, this initially coincided with a strong wave of penal populism 'from below' that continued the precedent trend towards increasing punitiviness. Since 2005, and for a brief moment, this tendency stopped. However, after that and during the presidencies of Fernandez de Kirchner a more volatile and contradictory scenario was generated. The incarceration rate between 2002 and 2014 in Argentina grew substantially as did the rate of convictions. Meanwhile the percentage of suspended sentences as part of the total convictions and the percentage of custodial sanctions both fell. Especially in relation to incarceration, these levels of change are not as stark as those of the preceding decades. However, the trends persist. Therefore, the question of how to transcend the dynamics of the punitive turn remains a pending and urgent political subject. The article argues the importance of analysing why a punitive turn is interrupted and presents an explanation of it.

Este trabajo pretende abordar la cuestión de los legados dictatoriales en las instituciones y practicas policiales en América del Sur. Se identifican dos elementos fundamentales: la militarización y la marginalización de la ley. Luego, se exploran algunas de sus manifestaciones cruciales y como han sido enfrentadas en algunos contextos en el marco de las luchas políticas en torno a la transición a la democracia y los resultados que se han generado. Se utilizan ejemplos del caso de Argentina. Concluye con una reflexión sobre la cuestión de los legados dictatoriales, su relación con el pasado remoto y sus metamorfosis en las prácticas e instituciones policiales contemporáneas.