The Criminological Examination as Biopolitics Mechanism

Abstract

This study addresses the requirement of criminological examination as a prerequisite to progression scheme. The aim is to show that such expertise has the ability to function as a biopolitics mechanism of the state, as manager of life, founded on a political and power strategy. It is observed that the criminological examination appears as a skill seen as able to predict the dangerousness of the agent and, therefore, the likelihood of recurrence. With the aim of protecting corporate interests and without observing the legislative amendment operated by Law 10,792 / 03, was re-established by binding precedent No. 26 issued by the Supreme Court in 2009, the examination of the application facultatividade criminological as a requirement to progression of the scheme to prevent sentenced presenting high degree of danger to be reinstated to social life. Given this context, going to defend this research that restoring a requirement that limits the entrance under the freedom or semi-freedom is part of a general strategy of power, as a security mechanism able to manage the social welfare through biological criteria of unwanted selection.

Keywords

• Exame criminológico, Biopoder, Biopolítica, Execução penal