An analysis of transnational networks of criminological studies based on the works of Dr. Francisco Ferraz de Macedo (1873-1907)

Abstract

This article deals with the formation and maintenance of  networks of criminological knowledge in the Atlantic World  through the figure of Francisco Ferraz de Macedo, a  Portuguese doctor and anthropologist who grew up and  studied in Brazil, but whose professional path led him to  work in some of the main European centres for  criminological studies. From his various works, we will  observe how his medical-anthropological discoveries relate to the international scientific debate at the end of the 19th century. In this  way, we aim to analyse the importance of the historical study of the figure of Ferraz de Macedo in the process of understanding the mechanisms that promoted the transnational character of criminological sciences in this period.