'Com defunto ruim não se gasta vela': hierarquizações que recaem sobre vítimas e réus na administração de conflitos no Tribunal do Júri do Rio de Janeiro

This paper shows how different classifications are triggered by the state agents operating in the Jury Court and their effect on victims and defendants, producing hierarchical structures over their cases as well as their respective mourned victims’ deaths, which affect their conception about humans. By describing two cases observed in fieldwork performed over a year and a half, the way these classifications intersect is demonstrated, assigning different moral values to the people involved in the cases and bringing out different solutions, while agents interact between themselves and each party.