A face invisível da (in) justiça: o impacto do racismo estrutural no reconhecimento pessoal e fotográfico

Abstract

The objective of this research is to analyze the influence of structural racism on the occurrence of unjust convictions relied on the personal and photographic identification procedure. The discussion should take place about how someone’s’ would interfere race in the prosecution, as long as most people imprisoned in Brazil are black. To achieve the proposed objectives, a quantitative-qualitative approach and inductive method refers to, based on bibliographic, jurisprudential, and documentary research, which highlights the role played by personal identification within maintaining punitive practices criteria. Thus, it was verified criminalizing conducts against communities in order to achieve social control, used to mass incarceration. In this perspective, legal rules create mechanisms for personal identification, particularly considering black people as criminal suspects. Indeed, the the aberration of methods for personal idetification is clear. It is prejudice evidence buid upon subjective basis where racial stereotypes self perpetuate. Instead of justice, it ranks on punitivism and it contributes to structural racial inequalities rooted in marginalizing black population.