No tribunal por amor: raptos consensuais como crime em Fortaleza (1920-1940)

Abstract

The consensual abduction was a commom practice in Fortaleza between the years of 1920 and 1940. Understanding that individuals, of various forms, range in front of the State, Church and family imposition, we realize that men and women, in that period, reinvented themselves when they reached out the use of artifices and tactics that enabled the experience of a forbidden love. On this basis, we analyze the promises and expectations that motivated the girls agree, and even in partnership with the beloved, the own abduction; we also problematize the reasons which led the abductions to the legal field consensus. In order to understand the abduction from its criminal character, our sources are criminal proceedings, law enforcement investigations, complaints and newspapers from that time. In the documentation under analysis , we seek love, promises, expectations, desires and feelings that motivated those individuals to cheat the social order, taking risk in a practice legally considered a crime, the abduction. In addition, we seek to realize Fortaleza that which was being forged by the subjects because kidnappers and abducted negotiated with city codes, with Schedule and with the own structure of houses, which resulted scapes through the yard, in abductions in public areas, such as in train stations, car abductions or in the work environment. It was in everyday life, considered banal by the repetition of everyday life, that kidnappers and abducteds were able to cheat family and social vigilance.