Abstract
The article discusses how the control and repression of vagrancy, a social category created by the legal discourse between the late XIXth century and the first half of XXth century, were practiced in São Paulo, through technologies of subjection of individuals submitted to forms of classification and control expressed in arbitrary Police practices such as correctional detention. To do so, we analyse Police reports made in the 1930s and 1940s, which indicate the overlapping of measures of social control on legal and penal instruments, opposing heterodox forms of management of illegalisms to the entire punishment cycle.
Keywords:
vagrancy; repression; São Paulo; correctional arrests; criminal justice