Minority and Dangerousness: intersections and subjections

Authors

  • Alessandra Teixeira Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC)
  • Fernanda Emy Matsuda Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-8099.pcso.2017.137499

Keywords:

minority, dangerousness, control, punishment, delinquency, subjection

Abstract

This article aims to discuss how the categories of minority and dangerousness were articulated, in the national experience, from criminological and medico-legal discourses and practices of control and punishment towards child and youth poverty, through the appropriation of the institute of presumed dangerousness, applied to vagrant adults and recidivists as established by 1940’s Criminal Code, to differentiate minority, necessarily linked to poverty, from wealthy child and youth, eventually lawbreaker. The article makes use of the analysis of regulations (between 1920 and
1950 decades), survey and analysis of bibliographic material, as well as deals with
data and speeches extracted from the Police Reports referring to the 1930s and 1940s, in the state of São Paulo, as primary sources.

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Author Biographies

  • Alessandra Teixeira, Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC)
    Doutora e Mestre pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia da USP. Pós-doutora em Ciências sociais pela UNESP/Marília. Bacharel em Direito. Professora adjunta da Universidade Federal do ABC - UFABC.
  • Fernanda Emy Matsuda, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
    Doutora e Mestre pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia da USP. Bacharel em Direito e em Ciências Sociais.

Published

2017-06-30

How to Cite

Teixeira, A., & Matsuda, F. E. (2017). Minority and Dangerousness: intersections and subjections. Plural, 24(1), 10-27. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-8099.pcso.2017.137499