Abstract:This article focuses on the process of urbanization and growth in the city of Juiz de Fora in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais during the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. We problematize the relationship between this process, marked by a developmentalist and elitist ideology, and the construc-tion of the political-criminal and punitive framework in the municipality. Based on the dialogue between his-torical studies on the city and the theoretical frameworks of critical criminology, w… Show more
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