Pacheco he criminalization of poor childhood in São Paulo: between Criminology and Psichiatryc
This study aims to demonstrate how the medical psychiatrist performance of the 1920s / 30s, especially that performed by psychiatrist Antonio Carlos Pacheco e Silva at Hospital Juquery, fostered the construction of the now known Experimental Health Unit (UES). Therefore, at this moment, bibliographies were analyzed, qualitatively, to describe the birth of criminology in Brazil and the impact of this science on the life of black people in the post-abolition period of the slave regime, as well as the influence of psychiatrist medical knowledge that grounded the persecution in the face of São Paulo's poor childhood and youth.
At this point, numerous documents from the Pacheco e Silva Fund located at the Professor Carlos Silva Lacaz Historical Museum of the USP School of Medicine were analyzed. From this research it was possible to understand that the psychiatrist Pacheco e Silva transcended the function of psychiatrist and occupied, very prominently (and perhaps with some cruelty) the space of criminologist. His performance, especially with Juquery, was used as the basis for the pursuit of abnormal childhood, now considered dangerous.
Thus, at the present moment of the research, the bases of the participation of the psychiatrist in the criminalization of the poor and black childhood of São Paulo, allocating him as a criminal were sought.