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The re-emergence of the political economy of punishment in criminological accounts has prompted a growth in comparative analyses among different countries. This work, however, have been basically limited to the core countries of capitalism, yet Southern countries have often been overlooked by this work. This chapter brings a Southern and peripheral reality to the contemporary criminological debate on the political economy of punishment. It also shows how the uncritical importation of criminological theories fails to understand the reality and demands of peripheral societies and their contexts. By contrast, appropriate contextualization of accumulated criminological knowledge can be helpful to make sense of distinct phenomena experienced in peripheral regions. This is shown by the relation between punishment, imprisonment and discipline in Brazilian prisons. Accordingly, this chapter explores historical and contemporary powers, forces and events that have deeply influenced patterns and trends of punishment in Southern penal systems.
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