Escolas de todas as perdições e degenerescências: Casa de Detenção da Corte e Penitenciária Nacional de Buenos Aires como espaços educativos (1856-1900)

Abstract

The present study has a main objective to discuss how the old House of Detention Courte, designed to be place for correctional inmates can be considered as an area of education for thousands of men (free or freed), women and children, the imperial elites considered belonging to the world of the street, so they were stray potential. For this propose we focus on realizing interplay between education, truancy and the institution, in speeches of the imperial period, particularly in legal mechanisms such as the Criminal Code of the Empire and the Municipal Code of Postures. From the analysis of the Regulation for the proper functioning of the institution, and books enrollment of inmates, we see attempts to educate prisoners, producing encouraging desirable behavior and productivity from the work internal workshops. Educated in these terms, fulfilled, thus, an important role in the formation of more civilized . The theoretical and methodological framework is interwoven with notions of disciplinary power and biopolitics, proposed by Michel Foucault. Seen in these terms, we try to understand how power relationships within and extramural factors constituted civilizing, educational, for those considered stray; condition to guide them and, by extension, the social set