The crazy infractor leaves the shadow

• Autor(a) principal: Paula, Éder Mendes de
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Albuquerque (Online)
• DOI: 10.46401/ajh.2019.v11.9837
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufms.br/index.php/AlbRHis/article/view/9837
• topic: crime; loucura; manicômio

When [Jairo] murders two children in Anápolis-GO in the year 1977, his individuality is marked by the crime, he ceases to be the individual to become the monster. However, the issues surrounding the construction of monstrosity are shrouded in narratives about the boundary between normality and abnormality and how each society builds its relationship between crime and madness. Therefore, the mad offender becomes object here to read a society that, violent, needed to deal with doubly categorized and excluded subjects, allowing to discuss about the relations of crime and violence in Goiás. In this perspective, it is approached as certain crimes. They are directly linked to the idea of ​​madness and how public opinion participates in this process of judging these subjects, and in what ways Goian society saw or even dealt with the mad offender, in the absence of a space for specific treatment.