SCIENTIFIC RACISM AND BIOANTHROPOLOGIC CRIMINOLOGY THEORIES

BRIEF ANALYSIS OF CRIMINAL SELECTIVITY IN BRAZIL.

Abstract

This research has got as main theme the study of scientific racism and positive criminology of Cesare Lombroso and Raimundo Nina Rodrigues, regarded both as issues that influence criminal selectivity in Brazil. General objective consists, therefore, in comprehend bioanthropologic criminal theories and how they were received in Brazil, above all in relation to the influence on punishment criminal structure. On this way, the research problem is centered on knowing if brazilian criminal system has got a racist main branch and if, as a consequence of that, it labels of deliquent and felon black person. Decuctive reasoning is prevailing adopted as methodology for this work, because notions of race, criminology, criminal selectivity and necropolitic (major premise) are used to reach results (minor premise). It is utilized qualitative research, so it is made social phenomenon study that involves the racism problematics on positive criminology, however, it is used as well the quantitative research, since there is data and statistic apresentation. It is concluded that, because of a political, social, historical and ideological racist construction black people remain being labeled as criminals and in inferior position, which causes mass incarceration and criminal selectivity.