“Populações perigosas” no Maranhão oitocentista (1830-1838)

Abstract

This work aims at articulating the practices of repression and the daily life of the strata belonging to the popular strata, the main target audience of criminal legislation, or on whom, mainly, the law is exercised, creating a space of permanent tension that permeated all social fabrics . To this end, it develops a study on daily crime among the free, liberated and captive populations in the eighteenth-century Maranhão province, located in the period between 1830 and 1838, a period marked by the process of formation of the legal framework of the Brazilian Empire, by the Regions. It presents an approach on the juridical framework of the Empire of Brazil, from the Constitution of 1824, the Criminal Code of 1830 and the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1832, also considering the bibliography about. Other records are also used: literary materials of travelers, civil authorities and bachelors, to identify how "dangerous" populations appear in their accounts. Also carries out a survey of the historiography that deals with the problem of violence and criminality in Brazil and Maranhão, considering the main contributions of these works; already the daily crime is apprehended from the pages of the official press of the province of Maranhão, focusing on the newspaper O Publicador Official.