Anormalidade e degeneração: o papel da imprensa goiana na estigmatização da embriaguez e seus reflexos no direito contemporâneo - 1865 a 1945

Abstract

The present research uses the concepts of degeneration and abnormality from Benedict Morel, and stigmatization from Goffman. It aims to explain how the Goiás press acted in the stigmatization of the drunk in the State of Goiás, from a historical perspective of race, gender, work, culture and corporeality, in line with the Historical Theory of Social Classification, of Anibal Quijano, and the reflections of this construction today. The first chapter, through bibliographic sources, gives a brief explanation of how society viewed drunkenness until the period studied. Its first part aims to explain the history of drunkenness in Europe until the formation of bourgeois asceticism, while the second part makes a study more directed to Portugal and Brazil. The second chapter, in turn, analyzes the specificities of degeneration and the construction of the abnormality of the drunk in the State of Goiás, between 1860 and 1945 through a dialectical comparison between a bibliographic study about this formation in Brazil and a critical discourse analysis, based on the Ginzburg methodology, of the Goiás newspapers found in the Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira da Biblioteca Nacional Digital do Brasil (Brazilian Digital Newspaper of the Biblioteca Nacional Digital do Brasil) that deal with drunkenness. Finally, the third chapter deals, sparingly with a research of bibliographic and jurisprudential sources, about the constitutionality of two criminalizing institutes that are legacies of the stigmatization of the drunk studied in the previous chapters. These institutes are the actio libera in causa’s theory and article 62 of Decree Law nº 3.688/1941.