Penal control and forms of subsumption of labor to capital in the different stages of capitalism
This work deals with the relationship between crime, mass incarceration policy and the need for control of the poorest, especially the "bad poor" in the midst of a scenario of shortage of jobs caused, among others, by the introduction of computerized production systems and neoliberal policies. To do so, it performs a bibliographic review in the light of contributions made by Marxist social theory. The understanding of how crime and prison intertwine with the general structure of bourgeois society required us to rescue the historical genesis of prison as an ordinary sentence, as well as demarcating responses and changes suffered by the institution amidst the transformations of the productive forces of capital . This work permeates, therefore, the birth of the prision and capital and the relationship between the development of the productive forces and the changes in the prison sentence and in penitentiary. We also start from the assumption that mass incarceration is one of the responses of capital to the problem of creation of the industrial reserve army caused by the expansion and development logic of the system itself.