2016
DOI: 10.1590/s0104-12902016165278
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Labirintos da medicalização do crime

Abstract: This article examines some aspects of the processes of crime medicalization, especially the medicalization of criminal dangerousness in contemporary societies. It starts with the identification of elements that organized the historical trajectory of the conversion of crimes into objects of medical knowledge -particularly, crimes characterized by the use of physical violence, usually involving homicides, done by individuals who were partially or totally irresponsible from the point of view of criminal justice. … Show more

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“…In that sense, the medicalization of crime allows one to observe the progressive expansion of the spectrum of behaviors and social conditions entering the field of Psychiatry Mathes, 2013Mathes, , 2016. However, it is also possible to conclude that, at least in this area, any pretense of conceiving medicalization processes as a permanent, linear, and predetermined expansion of the universe of phenomena under the scope of psychiatric knowledge should be abandoned.…”
Section: Conclusion: Provisional Reflections On Eugenic Strategies Anmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In that sense, the medicalization of crime allows one to observe the progressive expansion of the spectrum of behaviors and social conditions entering the field of Psychiatry Mathes, 2013Mathes, , 2016. However, it is also possible to conclude that, at least in this area, any pretense of conceiving medicalization processes as a permanent, linear, and predetermined expansion of the universe of phenomena under the scope of psychiatric knowledge should be abandoned.…”
Section: Conclusion: Provisional Reflections On Eugenic Strategies Anmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This monopolistic stance of medical knowledge stems, among other things, from the institutional trust usually placed by modern societies in science and technology, seen as strongholds in the management of fear, uncertainty, and threats Mathes, 2016). Crime tends to expose the fragility of the social fabric in managing behaviors that represent normative deviations and, at the same time, escape institutional schemes of social control.…”
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“…Podemos dizer que essa cultura do risco é resultado de uma necessidade de atuar em torno das incertezas e perigos da vida contemporânea, a fim de evitar consequências sociais. No entanto, ela tem mais a ver, de fato, com os interesses e padrões culturais que organizam o entendimento e as respostas sociais à esses perigos, do que com suas ameaças à vida humana (36).…”
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