Abstract
This article aims to discuss problems and challenges posed to Psychology by expressions of violence in Brazil, analyzing their ethical implications in the problematization of subjectivation policies in these scenarios. For this discussion on the expressions of violence, we chose two analysts: the phenomena of mass incarceration and homicides of juvenile segments. In recent years, Psychology has increasingly taken the field of violence as an object of discussion, intervention and scientific production. This is strongly reflected in the country’s sociopolitical issues, especially with regard to police approaches, mass incarceration, the systematic / uninterrupted increase in homicides of black child and youth segments, and the questioning of policies of imprisonment and criminalization. We will use authors who reflect critically on coloniality, such as Mbembe, dialoguing with productions of Social Psychology that discuss violence. The text will be developed through three sections. In the first one, we will discuss the problem of juvenile deaths and mass incarceration as expressions of a necropolicy in Brazil. In the second, we will problematize the production of (in) livable lives as one of the ethical challenges to Psychology in contexts of violence. Finally, we will approach the necessary ethical approach as a way of building another Psychology.
Violence; Psychology; Homicide; Incarceration; Necropolítica