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A DISCUSSION ON THE ECONOMY POLICY OF THE IMPRISONMENT IN MEXICO

Abstract

Based on a bibliographical and documentary review, the objective of the article is to propose a discussion on the Latin American scenario of the punitive wave characterizing the penal upturn in Mexico. Faced with the symbolic materiality of the punitive State where strict individual responsibility is considered a (neo)liberal ideological characteristic, the article relates
changes in the social value attributed to the labour force in the face of transformations in the capitalist system of production. It was noted that, although incarceration rates in Mexico are comparatively low,
It is necessary to consider other elements of configu ation and discipline of the workforce used as containment (segregation) and extermination.
The Mexican Criminal State has supported the legitimization of a centralized coercive command, thus shaping, in Hobbesian terms, the path for leviathan with absolute sovereignty, indivisible power, an enormous repressive apparatus and, above all, ideological control.