Adolescentes que praticam ato infracional no Brasil: em análise o roubo e suas determinações

Abstract

The present work aims to identify the social determinations of theft as an infraction, in order to understand why this constitutes the main infraction committed by adolescents in Brazil. The infraction refers to conduct analogous to crime and, when verified, socio-educational measures are applied. Thus, we seek to analyze the practice of the infraction from the perspective of the historical, social and economic context, since it does not happen detached from the reality in which the subjects are inserted. Methodologically, the text was constructed from a bibliographic review, with the information analyzed from a qualitative approach. It reflects on how the capitalist mode of production structures social relations, emphasizing the impacts generated by the inequalities reproduced by this economic system, which goes beyond the sphere of the economy and ends up affecting the relations between State and society. Thus, the evolution of legal rights for children and adolescents is approached, having as main references the Federal Constitution of 1988 and the Statute of Children and Adolescents of 1990, from which socio-educational measures to be applied to children and adolescents are foreseen. teenagers who commit crimes. It was possible to observe that the characteristics of a capitalist and racist society contribute to a portion of Brazilian adolescents living life trajectories marked by violation of rights, which is aggravated by the neoliberal State, which does not have as its main agenda the implementation of public policies for meet the social needs of the population and guarantee their social protection, especially for the most exploited and oppressed. Thus, countless adolescents can identify in the infraction an open door to, even if illegally, access goods that meet their most immediate needs, since in capitalist society, all things are goods.