BRAZILIAN UNEMPLOYED

the contemporary "vagrants"?

Authors

  • Lúcio Mauro Paz Barros Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/conflu.v24i2.54904

Abstract

Brazil has an unemployment rate of 11.1% in the first quarter of 2022, according to the Continuous National Household Sample Survey: Conjunctural Labor Market, by the Brazilian Institute of Economics and Statistics (IBGE, 2022). According to the institute, this contingent is made up of 11.9 million unemployed workers. The survey also points out that in the country there are 4.6 million discouraged people. In this context, it is important to mention that for bourgeois society, not working and not having material means of subsistence is a criminal offense. Under the national legislation, it is the criminal misdemeanor of “vagrancy”. Faced with such a scenario, the following reflection is necessary: ​​can the millions of unemployed and discouraged Brazilians be typified, in contemporary times, as vagrants? Such questioning, considering a current resurgence of the Penal State, is what is investigated in this article, looking at the legal and social evolution of the concept and typification of vagrancy. In order to do so, the historical process that underlies the aforementioned misdemeanor is considered through an empirical and interdisciplinary investigation, both internationally and nationally, in a legal-sociological interpretation, contrasting with the current Brazilian conjuncture. In this sense, it is expected that the present study will reflexively contribute to legal science and social transformation, seeking to invalidate the criminalization of vagrancy in a humanist perspective.

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Author Biography

Lúcio Mauro Paz Barros, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Doutorando em Direito Público pela Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS (2022). Mestre em Direito pelo Centro Universitário Ritter dos Reis - UniRitter, Porto Alegre-RS (2017). Pós-graduado em Direitos Humanos, pelo Ius Gentium Conimbrigae/Centro de Direitos Humanos da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra - FDUC, Portugal (2020). Especialista em Direito do Trabalho e Processual do Trabalho, pela Faculdade Instituto de Desenvolvimento Cultural - IDC, Porto Alegre-RS (2007). Bacharel em Direito pelo Centro Universitário Ritter dos Reis - UniRitter, Canoas-RS (2005). Foi pesquisador em Direitos Humanos, no Centro Universitário Ritter dos Reis - UniRitter - Porto Alegre/RS, tendo integrado o Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Direitos Humanos e Violência, vinculado ao Mestrado em Direito do Centro Universitário Ritter dos Reis - UniRitter (2016 - 2017). Professor Universitário no Programa de Pós-Graduação Lato Sensu do UniRitter, em Canoas/RS e Porto Alegre/RS. Advogado, inscrito na OAB/RS. Autor do livro "Vadiagem: infortúnio ou privilégio?", pela Editora Dialética, São Paulo, 2021.

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Published

2022-08-01

How to Cite

Paz Barros, L. M. (2022). BRAZILIAN UNEMPLOYED: the contemporary "vagrants"?. Confluências | Interdisciplinary Review of Sociology and Law, 24(2), 149-169. https://doi.org/10.22409/conflu.v24i2.54904

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Vol. 24 No. 2 (2022): Confluências v.24, n.2

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