Crime, subject and criminal subjection: Aspects of a contribution towards bandit category

Abstract

In this article the author recovers the concept of "criminal subjection" (Misse, 1999), to contribute to a better understanding of how operates the category of "bandido" (bandit) in Brazilian society. In this sense, the contemporary themes of the so-called "theory of the subject" are discussed as well as the classical approaches of actor and agency, label and stigma, to better define the range of issues involved in its contribution.