| Sumario: | Based on the microhistorical analysis of a case of homicide by a juvenile in 1939, we will focus on the functioning and particularities of the scientific practices involved in the judicial research at Santiago’s Juvenile Court between 1929 and 1942 – first administrative period of the juvenile protection system in Chile.
From a broad perspective of sciences, we will consider as scientific the four practices that were included as technical-scientific knowledge oriented towards the support of Santiago’s Juvenile Judge, Samuel Gajardo, since 1929: medicine, psychology, social service and pedagogy.
We will examine the particularities of the juvenile justice installed in Chile at the end of the 1920s and, based on the analysis of the aforementioned case, we will analyze the implications of the scientific practices in this type of cases and other similar cases investigated by this court. It should be noted that in Chile there is no research based on primary sources about the functioning of the aforementioned scientific practices in the early days of juvenile justice, for which reason this study aims to open up, albeit partially, this field of research.
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