Debates on Juvenile Criminal Issues (Part I)
RC29 Deviance and Social Control
Language: English and Spanish
New normative dispositions and institutional configurations indicate that, once again, addressing juvenile criminal issues involves expanding all forms of control and restorative agreements rhetorically, with little chance of becoming actual alternatives for adolescents who violate criminal law. This clear regressive signal seems to be based on the recurrently illusory idea that punishing by increasing penalties and depriving liberty to adolescents who infringe criminal law would be appropriate measures to address juvenile criminal issues. To problematize this spirit of the times regarding treating adolescent infractions, the thematic table is conceived as a space for dialogue that counters clichés and dichotomous discourses. To this end, presentations are invited that consider some of the topics listed below:
- Legal reforms and juvenile criminal system
- Punishment and juvenile criminal system: the issue of confinement and non-custodial measures
- Adolescent infraction and gender perspective
- Ethnic and racial discrimination in the apprehension of juvenile offenders
- Selectivity of the juvenile criminal justice system
- Adolescent infraction and sociocultural transformations
- Crimes against sexual integrity: adolescents as offenders and as victims
- Criminal processes and restorative justice
- Juvenile criminal issues from a historical perspective
- Professional practices in the juvenile criminal system
- Diagnosis, therapy, and desistance strategies in the juvenile criminal system
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