A maquinaria judicializante e o governo de infâncias desiguais

Abstract

This article provides a problematization of the judicialization of life and particularly, of the judicialization of childhood. It finds in the manufacturing of unequal childhoods, in the twentieth century in Brazil, a historical event to think about the provenance and about the effects of the judicializing machinery. It proposes to put in question whether the Minors Code of 1927, as a legal-juridical formulation, would be enough to understand the judicialization of childhood process. Based on Michel Foucault's work, the discussion follows the methodological proposal of genealogy, that allows us to see in the heterogeneity of doings, how it was formed the entanglement of powers and the alliance between psychiatry and the legal power in the normalization of conducts. Thus, the judicialization and the normalization would be complementary processes, mutually requested in governing the population. Therefore, the concept of governamentality proves to be a strategic instrument for analysis the judicialization as a form of government childhood. In this respect, from the minors' court and behaviors that were there on trial, we can understand the judicializing scene, as well as some images that diffusion of court-form has designed.