Flagrancy, special procedure - Its role as an articulation of strategic practices of the San Juan’s security device

Abstract

This paper exposes partial results that constitute steps forward in the research undertaken as part of the CICITCA project named: “Flagrancy, is it a punitive technology?”In our research, we sought to analyze the lagrancy system functions as an articulation of government technologies in a control society and penalty mechanisms in a disciplinary society.We studied the relationship between the Flagrancy Especial Procedure (FEP) along with other techniques, tactics, strategies, and practices that conform a security device in the province. What we were trying to achieve with this approach was to show how all these devices are capable of managing the control and punishment of certain population segments in the province.Next, we assess some theoretical categories that were indispensable to understand the mutations that operated in the punitive system of San Juan for more than a decade, understanding that the notions of device, structural coupling, tactics, strategies, etc, enable the intelligibility of procedures that would otherwise seem to be disconnected or isolated from general dynamics