Conscription versus penal servitude: army reform's influence on the Brazilian State's management of social control, 1870-1930.
From: Journal of Social History
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Date: 6/22/1999
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Author: Beattie, Peter M.
The army's centrality to Brazil's penal justice system in the late 1800s hindered attempts to implement enlisted recruitment reforms. The army coercively inducted non-homicidal "criminals," guarded civil convict populations, incorporated orphans and juvenile deliquents, and conducted police functions in provinces across the nation. To facilitate the adoption of military conscription, however, authorities undertook a series of institutional changes that had a deep but largely unrecognized ...
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