Encoding the Criminal: Criminology, Science, and the State in Modernizing Argentina (1880-1921)

该项目建立在PI的档案实地考察和世纪之交的阿根廷犯罪学的初步分析，以记录其在国家实践中的兴起和应用。 它纳入了新的可用来源，将其与国家和地区更广泛的政治和法律的历史联系起来。它考察了犯罪学理论对法律和立法的影响，以及在阿根廷现代化背景下旨在规范和纪律越轨行为的国家政策。它考察了犯罪学理论在四个关键领域的实际应用：警察识别新技术监狱纪律的科学改革实证主义犯罪学对1902年和1910年“社会防卫”法中国家立法的影响国家刑法典现代化的运动。编码的罪犯结合两种方法，科学史和拉丁美洲历史。 它系统地集中于阿根廷科学家的贡献，以及他们的思想对当地发展的影响，以及对国际科学思想的更大的机构。该项目是一个新兴的历史研究领域的一部分，该领域研究科学，政治和文化之间的相互作用。它提供了在科学、技术和社会研究中不常考虑的新数据和重要视角。 该项目有助于更广泛地讨论科学对国家政策和法律的作用。它阐明了公众对科学在确定犯罪原因和治疗方法方面的作用的辩论。

This project builds on the PI's archival fieldwork and initial analysis of turn-of-the-century Argentine criminology, to document its rise and application in state practices. It incorporates newly available sources that connect it to the broader political and legal history of the nation and region. It examines the impact of criminological theory on law and legislation and state policies intended to regulate and discipline deviant behavior in the context of modernizing Argentina. It examines the practical application of criminological theories in four key areas: New techniques of identification in policingThe scientific reform of prison disciplineThe impact of positivist criminology on national legislation in the "social defense" laws of 1902 and 1910The campaign to modernize the national Criminal Code. Encoding the Criminal unites two approaches, the history of science, and Latin American history. It focuses systematically on the contributions of Argentine scientists, and the impact of their ideas on local developments as well as on a larger body of international scientific thought. The project is part of an emerging field of historical inquiry that examines the interaction between science, politics, and culture. It provides new data and an important perspective not often taken into account in studies of science, technology and society. The project contributes to broader discussions of the role of science on state policy and law. It illuminates public debates about the role of science in determining the causes and treatments of crime.