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GARCIA ACEVEDO, Marina  e  DI MARCO, Martín Hernán. The ‘Verdugueo’ Logic: Legitimization of Violence in Penitentiary Wardens of Buenos Aires’ Prison System. Temas debates (En línea) [online]. 2023, n.45, pp.67-86. ISSN 1853-984X.

In Argentina, studies about police and judicial bureaucracies have shown that the use of violence by penitentiary agents constitutes a regular phenomenon, inscribed in the institutional contexts. Drawing upon social studies of professions and violence, the objective of this paper is to work narratives of male penitentiary agents of the Buenos Aires Penitentiary Service, in order to explore the legitimation processes of violent practices and its informal mechanisms. Open and semi-structured interviews were conducted with penitentiary agents, and observations in penitentiaries were carried out (2016-2019). We identified several ritualized practices in the early stages of their labor trajectories. Notably, we describe four practices that were narrated as indexes: “welcomes”, “earning one’s place”, “passages”, and “punishments”. We argue that the logic of “verdugueo” can be seen as the general framing for the learning of informal rules and violent practices in prison agents.

Palavras-chave : violence; torture; prisons; trajectories; prison warden; Penitentiary System of Buenos Aires Province.

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