Abstract
Around 1930 in Buenos Aires, physicians and lawyers began asking why children were committing crimes as part of a penal agenda revealed in publications such as the Revista de Psiquiatría, Criminología y Medicina Legal and the Anales de la Sociedad Argentina de Criminología from 1930 to 1946. Emerging from this discourse, conceived as a social practice, was an approach to the dangerous nature of childhood, linked to biological qualities, environmental factors and issues related to family and gender which were flagged as a precursor to crime. Advances in endocrinology, criminal biotypology, and psychiatry were resumed, with these subjects also addressed at the First International Congress on Criminology in Rome and the First Latin American Congress on Criminology in Buenos Aires, both held in 1938. A qualitative analysis of the discourse reveals a blend of the incidence of the biological and the social in the dangerous nature of childhood.
Highlights
committing crimes as part of a penal agenda revealed in publications
environmental factors and issues related to family and gender
which were flagged as a precursor to crime
Summary
Resumen Hacia 1930 en Buenos Aires, médicos y abogados se preguntaron por qué delinquían los niños, como parte de una agenda penal que se visualizó en publicaciones como Revista de Criminología, Psiquiatría y Medicina Legal y Anales de la Sociedad Argentina de Criminología entre 1930 y 1946. Resumo Em Buenos Aires na década de 1930, no âmbito de pesquisas criminológicas encontradas em publicações como a Revista de Psiquiatría, Criminología y Medicina Legal e nos Anales da Sociedad Argentina de Criminología, entre 1930 e 1946, médicos e advogados se perguntavam por que as crianças podiam se tornar delinquentes. Concebidos como uma prática social, a periculosidade da infância foi abordada em conexão com as especificidades biológicas e os aspectos ambientais, familiares e de gênero descritos como fatores propícios ao crime. Why do our children commit crimes? Childhood and criminological publications (Buenos Aires, 1930-1946)
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