A medida de segurança: elementos para interpretação da contenção por tempo indeterminado dos loucos infratores no Brasil

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

The state of criminal irresponsibility that places those who commit infractions due to mental disorders in Brazil is called inimputability. For the inimputable or those free from criminal charge a means of security order is destined, a legal institute reserved for people with mental disorders which have committed crimes that requires, for its introduction or suspension, legal medical exams, registered in psychiatric reports. The objective of the thesis is to identify elements that allows the interpretation and support of this legal institute. The means of security order is historic and needs to be placed among the actions of the State for the containment of dangerous people. This legal institute is the biggest expression of psychiatric infiltration on law, which introduces the double standard of the social defense school: the psychiatricization of the crime and of the criminalization of the mentally disturbed. This legal institute, being a practice of containment regulated by mental exams, centers itself on the concepts of dangerousness, prevention and adaptation/treatment, finding itself in a territory in between punishment and treatment. In this scenario the discourse of the mental disabled that committed a crime is only administrable by psychiatric knowledge and the idea of the necessity stands out as the reason for the containment, beyond the law, of dangerous people. The judgement of the dangerousness becomes an operator in the means of security, which is not only calibrated by craziness, but by race and social class.

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periculosidade antropologia urbana medida de segurança inimputabilidade saúde mental

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