Juvenile delinquency in Brazil and its legal implications

The importance and need for psycholegal actions related to the treatment of adolescents in delinquency. It aims to detail the general aspects of juvenile delinquency in Brazil from the perspective of Legal Psychology; expose the approaches presented in the literature on juvenile delinquency; present legal studies on juvenile delinquency; demonstrate the role of government agencies in the process of containment and resocialization of juvenile offenders. The research is bibliographical and the results address juvenile delinquency, its concepts, implications from the perspective of Legal Psychology, emphasizing social life institutions, psychological aspects, public policies and intervention proposals. It concludes that the debate on juvenile delinquency is stigmatized, given that mistaken concepts are disseminated by society, which refuses to understand young people, their particularities and their internal conflicts as the initial focus of delinquent behavior.