Resumen de Michel Foucault, a gestão dos ilegalismos e a razão criminológica neoliberal
This article analyzes how the problems of security and economy of punishment are central to the political and economic calculation of neoliberal rationality. As Michel Foucault proposes in his course of 1979, Birth of Biopolitics, neoliberal government technology would conceive the state apparatus as “the mobileeffect of a regime of multiple governmentalities”.It is the economic approach, therefore, that will allow to test the effectiveness of governmental action, from the evaluation of the cost-benefit of interventions in the sphere of the market and society, according to the proposition of neoliberal theorists. This mercantile critique is directed to what is conceived as “expenditure”of the economic actions of the public power, since the market becomes “a sortof permanent economic tribunal confrontinggovernment”, as Foucault suggests. In this scenario, in which the punitive demands are amplified, the efficiency of the criminal justice system of the states will be measured by the market and economic evaluation, with the objectiveof their effects. It will then be a question of reflecting on the functioning of punitive power in an economic way, that is to say, by means of problematizing the costs of delinquency and ways of making them the leastexpensivepossible and with maximum efficiency.
