Uma contravenção controvertida: reflexões acerca da tutela penal do jogo do bicho

Abstract

This article is the result of an empirical research that brings together historical representations, ethnographic data collected in the field and theoretical and journalistic sources of the “jogo do bicho” ́s lottery, that explains the relation of the organization and forms of it ́s structuring and institutionalization with the characteristics of the repression of its practices, justified by it ́s criminal tutelage. It is not intended here to promote a historical discussion or an argument necessarily despanalizador of the practice of this lottery. However, it seeks to review some aspects of the game with the relationship of it ́s criminalization to criminal law, in order to analyze, reflect and problematize the application of criminal law, as in the case of this lottery in which the processes of criminalization of this practice contributed to the rooting and fortification of the game in the illegality.

Keywords

• Animal ́s game
• illegalism
• misdemeanor
• privacy policy
• city