Performance and functioning of Justice in Brazil Imperial: the case of the court of the Jury of São Leopoldo/RS

• Autor(a) principal: Von Mühlen, Caroline
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Anos 90 (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/74155
• topic: Tribunal do Júri; São Leopoldo; Século XIX; Jury court; São Leopoldo; 19th century

The purpose of this article is to analyze how institutional justice was applied in the interior of the Province of Rio Grande do Sul, with a view to the installation and operation of the São Leopoldo Jury Court. Although there has been an increasing number of work in recent years on the study of official justice and its agents on the national and regional scene, there is still a lack of studies on local official justice, and especially comparative analyzes that consider non-official justice practices existing in the colonies. From diverse sources, found in the Judicial Memorial, in the Historical Archive of Rio Grande do Sul, in the Public Archive of Rio Grande do Sul and in other archives, we seek to promote a reflection on Justice in São Leopoldo in the second half of the 19th century. To achieve this objective, methodologically, we will analyze the sources in a quantitative and qualitative way, as well as promote their cross-referencing, in order to find evidence about the Jury Court, jurors, defendants and victims.