A REFLECTION, MANY FACES: NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE AND ITS MECHANISMS IN CRIMINAL ROUTE.

Abstract

Aiming at discussind the administration of criminal justice, this paper analyzes Brazilian police records from the time of the Empire. In order to do so, it draws attention, in particular, to a multidisciplinary study of manuscripts of criminal cases of the mid-nineteenth century. The methodology used in this study shares concepts from philology, history, law and anthropology by editing these documentary sources. We are interested in what emerges from the subtext of these data and which, as a result, reveals a part of the social constitution of the population of that period unveiling the mechanisms of justice related to some modalities of gender violence as well as the establisment of devices designed to maintain control and order.