This paper aims to discuss the mechanisms of social control which were developed concerning criminal mentally ills in the form of institutionalised knowledges and practices. These are organised accordingly to psychiatric and legal (penal) strategies. Through the history of a patient of a Hospital de Custódia e Tratamento we try to demonstrate how a web – constituted of knowledges, practices, institutions and laws – is constructed on the same notion of dangerousness. So we can examine the constitution of a new subjectivity: the uncanny dangerousness subject.
Social control; criminal madness; hospitalization; community health