Abstract
In this investigative article we draw upon the production of delinquency and its objectification by psychological knowledge during the twentieth century in Brazil. The analytical scope for this research comes from the archeogenealogical strategy put forward by Michel Foucault, whereby we investigated articles from the journal ‘Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia’ between 1949 and 1990. We selected 17 articles as analytical field in which the elements “youth”, “crime” and/or “delinquency” are present and through which four epistemological axes that legitimize delinquency as an object of study of psychology were delineated: 1. the demoralization of poverty (family inheritance); 2. sovereignty of internalization (biopsychological determinism); 3. symptomatology of contemporaneity; and 4. essentialization of youth. Through this analysis, we highlight how psychology constitutes the young subject as the representation of delinquency, but rather as the science that privatizes a domain over this object. Psychology, thus, become the necessary science to explain contemporary youth criminality.
Highlights
Neste artigo investigativo buscamos mostrar a produção da delinquência e sua objetificação pelos saberes psicológicos do século XX no Brasil
In this investigative article we draw upon the production of delinquency and its objectification by psychological knowledge during the twentieth century in Brazil
The analytical scope for this research comes from the archeogenealogical strategy put forward by Michel Foucault, whereby we investigated articles from the journal ‘Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia’ between 1949 and 1990
Summary
Neste artigo investigativo buscamos mostrar a produção da delinquência e sua objetificação pelos saberes psicológicos do século XX no Brasil. O escopo analítico para esta pesquisa partiu da estratégia arqueogenealógica de Michel Foucault, na qual investigamos publicações da revista Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia, desde sua criação em 1949 até 1990. Selecionamos como campo de análise 17 artigos nos quais os elementos ‘juventude’, ‘criminalidade’ e/ou ’delinquência’ faziam-se presentes, a partir dos quais delimitamos quatro eixos epistemológicos que legitimaram a delinquência como objeto de estudo do campo psi: 1. A partir dessa análise, visibilizamos não somente como a Psicologia vai constituindo o jovem como sujeito do delinquir, bem como privatiza um domínio de saber sobre este objeto, tornando-se uma ciência absolutamente necessária para explicar contemporaneamente a criminalidade juvenil
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