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Contributions of Michel Foucault to analyze documents and files on judicialization/jurisdictionalization

In this article we aims to highlight the historical production among files, documents and practices generalization of a punitive society , in relations between norms and laws , and also the power, right and truth , according to studies of Michel Foucault regarding legal sovereignty , discipline, biopolitics and security as a political government system of conducts . The use of the documents and files to criminalize, incarcerate and segregate social deviants is an everyday practice today and runs through the device of confession in the vicinity of the judiciary, operating the notions of risk and danger in terms of biopolitics. The disciplinary writing triggers the formation of cases and dossiers, by means of tests, vigilant observations and regulatory sanction, in a criminal microeconomics. It is important to criticize these practices and thinking about field of possibilities of résistance to those written in a memory of the infamies in the judicialization of life.

Legal processes; history; Foucault, M


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