Психиатрична експертиза и криминална стигма
Psychiatric Expertise and Criminal Stigma

Summary/Abstract: The article represents sociological analytics of the fundamental relation “truth- knowledge” underlying the exercises of the contemporary penal power over “offenders of the law”; it demonstrates in what manner, through the medium of the legal-psychiatric expertise, a criminal stigma on definite individuals is constituted and stabilized into the frameworks of institutional organization of the judicial system; how, by means of incorporation, integration and domination of the medical knowledge on the legal rationality a normative space is generated, which, through permanently produced criminals forms of subjectivity, systematically and irreversibitically is completed with pathological recidivists. Within this boundary powerful order, inside this juridical-medical cognitive sphere, an indiscernible homogeneity between the crime (target of intervention of the penal power) and illness (target of intervention of the medical power) is interweaved. The topic of this sociological research is the social functions of the psychiatric expertise into the criminal law as political technology for constructing and consolidating of a hybrid totality of correlative interconnections between “criminal behaviour” and “pathological existence”.

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