“Minha maldade organizada”: uma crítica sobre racismo e direito no Brasil a partir da crônica “Mineirinho”, de Clarice Lispector

Abstract

The present work's research theme is the analysis of the relationship among Criminal Law, Criminology and racism in Brazil based on the chronicle “Mineirinho”, by writer Clarice Lispector. The problem that the research seeks to answer is, through Clarice's work, what forms of racism are present in Brazil’s legal system of criminal justice and Criminal Law. The research’s methodology adopted is the hypothetical-deductive method, through bibliographic procedure, which allows descriptive research to be carried out, with a qualitative approach. With this, the general objective is to understand some ways in which racism is present in Law from the intersecting study between Law and Literature. The specific objectives are to investigate how racism operates in the social imaginary, verify whether state omission is racist violence, analyze how justification theories of punishment legitimize racist violence and, finally, demonstrate that police violence is a manifestation of racism. At the end of the work, it is possible to conclude that not only is racism present in Brazil’s criminal justice system, but that the system itself is a racist mechanism that works to maintain racial segregation and discrimination