Vida Policial: understanding highly civilized crime repression and (or) influence in young’s people psychology

Abstract

This paper analyzes the tales and detective feuilletons published in the magazine “Vida Policial”, in the city of Rio de Janeiro (1925-1927). The weekly published police chronic, tales, serial, police doctrine, texts of the legal world as well as news reporters. The police written were means of building types of crime and criminal, at the same time all this produced a social imaginary which imputed to this type of literature, the stigma of a crime handbook. Reproduced in police writtens what we call education in reverse, because the actions and characters printed with the mark of illegalism a form of social struggle more acceptable and effective. Actions and means and combat the crime, seen as the ideal model, perpetrated by security agents amateurs – amateurs detectives – imply the individual power of the investigator, as Sherlock Holmes, which has established itself as the superhero archetype, an exemplary surveillance, prevention and safety.