Abstract

OLAETA, Hernán. The emergence of the criminal statistics in Argentina: The influence of criminological discourses in the production and analisys of data on the City of Buenos Aires (1885-1921). Delito soc. [online]. 2015, vol.24, n.40, pp.31-62. ISSN 0328-0101.

By the end of 19th and the beginning of 20th century, Argentina experienced important social and political changes in which a positivist speech took place and influenced local government as well as the academic and scientific field, specifically in criminology. In this context, criminal statistics became an instrument to legitimize knowledge and practices under the imperative of studying crime through a scientific angle. Even when the existing data was limited and not all consistent, it was useful to display a perspective of what was understood as "criminal problem". This article deals with the scope the positivist ideas had in the origins of the criminal statistics office and the analysis of the first referents of local criminology.

Keywords : Criminal statistics; Positivism; Immigration; Statistical offices; Positivist criminology.

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