A HISTÓRIA DA POPULAÇÃO CARCERÁRIA NO BRASIL: O PRESO NEGRO

Abstract

The work presented aims to discover whether the positivist school founded by Lombroso, and widely disseminated in Brazil at the end of the 20th century, had arguments solid and scientific to ratify that the black man is predisposed to delinquency. logo of beginning of the history of Brazil the black man arrives in these lands enslaved, treated as thing, stripped of the status of a human being, with no right to be used, sold, mistreated and even executed according to the will of their masters without any interference of State. This is the design of the treatment of blacks in colonial Brazil. little has changed with the arrival of the royal family inaugurating the Brazil empire. Despite the first code the black continued to suffer atrocious punishments, regardless of being a criminal, just for the the fact of being an enslaved black was enough to apply the hardships to him, as an example, in order to contain any hint of insurrection. The need to align with thinking European made the abolition of slavery a legal, republican reality and as soon as the proclamation, but which in practice further aggravated the situation of the black relegating to the marginality. In this scenario, it stands out by disseminating the Lombrosian theses that gave rise to the eradication of black people from the nation, Nina Rodrigues, confirming that the same was the real reason for social problems. In the search for answers, the analysis of the book O Homem Delinquente made necessary in order to test the segregationist theses if they have robustnessto prosper in modern times.