Legal Sensibilities and Implicit Filtering in the Administration of Second Degree Murder on Criminal Persecution

In this paper, I present some data and analysis of ethnography, which composes part of my post-doctoral research in progress. I describe and analyze the logics that guides the institutional administration of the category "second degree murder" throughout the criminal prosecution. The hypothesis is that such a crime does not have an immutable or purely legal character, depending on the police and judicial appraisal before each case, determining how these should be managed institutionally. The aim is to expose some contradictions of the Brazilian legal culture, exploring the uses of the legal sensitivities in flow analysis to such a crime.