This research seeks to study the representation of delinquents and criminals through the narrative and visual discourses present in three magazines of the Chilean Investigation Police: Detective,Criminología y policía científica and Criminología, published in the period of time covered here (1934-1961). The analysis focuses on the so-called “delinquent galleries” which appeared in these publications and whose visual reiteration, in addition to the editorials, notes and articles written there, would help to generate a common sense regarding what should be understood by then as a social enemy.