Revista de Criminologias e Politicas Criminais (Oct 2016)

"Out the Back Door”: The Construction of Knowledge Criminological Positivism in the Brazilian Law

  • Guilherme Martins Teixeira Borges,
  • Anderson Luiz Brasil Silva

DOI
https://doi.org/10.26668/IndexLawJournals/2526-0065/2016.v2i1.299
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 250 – 266

Abstract

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The article aims to analyze how the criminal know can become a legitimate tool to promote the criminalization certain social sectors. Thus it aimed to explain how contemporary Brazilian penal know is still influenced by the criminological thought positivista.Relata as this discourse entered "the back door" homelands of criminal laws and enabled the creation of an ideology of social protection and the criminalization of minorities.

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