Portuguese childhood between the penumbra of the infraction and the light of protection (19th and 20th centuries)

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Our socio-historical study addresses marginalized childhood, slut, offender and/or Portuguese
delinquent, in the period of the 19th century. 19th century and early 19th century. xx, which lived in a
subculture on the margins of society, considered dangerous for social cohesion. We are guided by this
social phenomenon of that childhood (phenomenology), by an argument action of hermeneutics. The
documentary corpus uses primary sources of the time and analyses of later studies, which emphasize
the relations between that childhood and the political-ideological power, social reforms to normalize
that childhood, to assistance and protection measures to be useful citizens. We are guided by the
following objectives: to understand social policies, the measures established in the governance of
children who are slutty, wandering, delinquent or delinquent; to analyze the power relations over this
type of childhood, in order to supply the state of marginalization and social deviation, in which they
were immersed; interpreting this childhood using political-ideological, scientific and philanthropic
discourses, whose object of analysis was this social problem of the child/childhood outside society.
The structure of the text is based on 4 points: the emergence of social reform measures for the
protection of children (19th century). XVIII) with the intention of assisting, welcoming, regenerating,
educating and reinserting; oscillation of state intervention in 'governance and prophylaxis' and the scientific and philanthropic discourses of the eight hundred era; and the infamous route from
marginalization to protection, at the beginning of nine hundred, to them minor offender or offender.

Keywords: Child slut. Childhood offender. Child delinquency. Child and adolescent protection.
Institutions of minors.