This article discuss the relationship between paternity, family and crime, by analyze of the discourse in legal documents. It takes, as the research corpus, documents archived at the case law of the Courts of Justice in southern Brazil's states. From these documents we question statement movements that support links between Fatherhood and Crime. There are numerous movements in regard to paternity: paternity in the heterosexual matrix; paternity as equality; classifications for different fathers. Extending the analysis, it researches the statements that trigger the father as one of the family, no differentiates it. Regarding households, moving statements standardizing ways of being family. The family appear in the documents as an important and crucial to the analysis of criminal.
paternity; crime; Family; social practices
