VIOLENCE AND PENAL SYSTEM: YOUNG PEOPLE, POLICE, JUDICIAL AND CUSTODY PRACTICES

Abstract

This article proposes to reflect on the issue of juvenile punishment and violence in the government of impoverished youth in three analytical keys: structural violence, the territorial dynamics of the police agency, the approaches of the justice system and, especially, of penal custody over these populations. For this, it is reviewed and discussed with a group of recent investigations on young people, police, judicial systems and confinement in Latin America, especially in countries of the southern cone. For this, the context of the structural violence of persistent inequality in the region is replaced, to then problematize the media and political construction of impoverished youth as a category of social negativity and threat. These considerations will be analyzed from a relational perspective of violence at its different levels (micro, mass and macro) which, in turn, distrusts the manifest purposes of juvenile punishment, to question the functions and dynamics on which it is based. the punitive system on the youngest in social contexts of precariousness and persistent inequality.