Juvenile delinquency in Brazil and its legal implications
International Journal of Development Research
Juvenile delinquency in Brazil and its legal implications
Received 11th January, 2022; Received in revised form 20th January, 2022; Accepted 19th February, 2022; Published online 19th March, 2022
Copyright © 2022, Francisca Morais da Silveira et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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.
