CRIMINALIZATION IN RORAIMA: INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND THE PRISON SYSTEMS
Criminalization; Education; Indigenous peoples.
This doctoral dissertation examines the situation of indigenous people who live or
have lived in prison units in Roraima. It show how the system penalizes indigenous
people for their acts and crimes. There are four chapters showing how this process of
criminalization in the indigenous world has increased. Acculturation is increasingly
stronger, with the taking on of the values of non-indigenous people. In the First
Chapter of this dissertation I seek to show a little of the history and colonization of the
village communities that exist today, talking about the social and cultural organization
of the indigenous peoples that inhabit Roraima. I emphasize the process of
acculturation and the imposition of the non indigenous world on indigenous peoples.
In the Second Chapter I try to demonstrate the historical process of colonization of
indigenous peoples in Brazil and especially in Roraima, and that the rate of indigenous
people imprisoned is very high. In the Third Chapter, I talk about the Prison System
that punishes and judges and show how the process of incarcerating indigenous people
in prison units occurs. Knowing that the process does not only includes investigation
by competent units, and it also includes observing the point of view of indigenous
people who find themselves deprived of freedom. In the fourth chapter I try to give
some meaning to this order and disorder of cultural information in school education
and indigenous education.