Prison visitation, non-visitation, and the carceral production of poor judgement in Northeast Brazil
Bibliographic record
Abstract
As Brazilians navigate the ethical complexities of a family member's incarceration, they generally strive to do what is “good” and “right” according to ethical criteria that emerge from everyday life. Yet, under carceral pressure, their carefully considered words and deeds often come to be evaluated as breaches. The narrative of one Afro-Brazilian woman's fraught transition, from prison visitor to prisoner without visitors, illustrates how state-organized punishment can cause people to exhibit poor judgement in the eyes of those who matter most. Drawing on findings from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in/around prisons in Bahia, Brazil, this article approaches prison visitation and nonvisitation through the anthropological lens of “ordinary ethics” to explore how incarceration disrupts life for targeted groups by shaping without determining ethical judgment. Ultimately, the carceral production of group-differentiated susceptibility to ethical breach constitutes an injurious effect of classed, gendered, and racialized state violence, illustrating the political unevenness of ethical experience.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".