Crime and delinquency were objects of several researches in the order to identify scientific bases for their solution. This paper aims to examine if it would be reasonable, from the ethical point of view, the development of research aimed at investigating elements or bioanthropological delinquency models in the contemporary context. Deductive and comparative methods were applied to verify if research of the same genre, as the study proposed in Brazil in 2008, would have moral support in the current context, in view of the foundations of Principialist Bioethics and reflections of political and legal theory that highlights the fragile state of the individual in the face of punitive state action.
Bioethics; Research ethics; Juvenile delinquency; Criminology; Vulnerable population