Criminal faction as a discursive construction
a Foucauldian analysis of Law 15,358/2026 and the jurisprudence of the Superior Court of Justice
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Foucault, criminal faction, legal discourse, pretrial detention, criminal policyAbstract
This article critically examines Law 15,358 of March 24, 2026 (the Anticriminal Organization Law), articulating it with Michel Foucault’s theory of discourse and the jurisprudence of the Superior Court of Justice. It is based on the hypothesis that the category of “criminal faction” operates as an institutional discursive construction that legitimizes practices of anticipatory penal control, placing pressure on procedural guarantees. A qualitative methodology is adopted, involving normative, doctrinal, and jurisprudential document analysis, using a Foucauldian perspective as an interpretive lens. The results indicate that the expansion of the concept of criminal organization, combined with the rhetoric of dangerousness, favors decisions based on fragile evidence of affiliation, reinforcing mechanisms of discursive exclusion. From this perspective, it is concluded that the Anticriminal Organization Law, although relevant in combating organized crime, presents risks of punitive expansion supported by legally institutionalized regimes of truth.
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