Medicalização, risco e controle social

Abstract

The article examines the relationships between the functioning of risk as a biopolitical device and the medicalization of deviant behavior in contemporary societies. It presents an analysis of various biopolitical strategies and technologies related to the medicalization of crime and criminal behaviour from the viewpoint of the role that risk plays in interconnecting the microphysical and biopolitical dimensions of the medicalization of social life, along with the connections between medical knowledge and social control.