Abstract
In 2003 the law 10,792 removed the obligation to carry out the criminological examination, within the Brazilian criminal enforcement by changing the list of requirements for opportunity of parole and progressive sentencing. However, this legislative amendment appears not to have produced significant effects on judicial levels and more than ten years later, the number of requests to perform such tests with maintaining its primary function of supporting the decision of the judges is still huge. This article aims the strategies of knowing and exercise of power in comments directed the examination and the criminalizing logic present in the prison procedures, making questions to Psychology and the principles in the ethics and the social commitment of the profession.
Keywords:
criminology; evaluation; criminal psychology