Teen criminal issue politicization: the case of reducing the age of criminal responsibility

Authors

  • Luis Eduardo Morás Facultad de Derecho Universidad de la República Uruguay

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18316/2318-8081.16.33

Keywords:

Adolescents in Conflict with the Law, Punitivism, Media Criminology, Penal Populism, Victimization.

Abstract

The article presents a set of reflections made in the scenario of the debate to reduce the criminal age responsibility in Uruguay, trying a comparative view with the Brazilian case. It is proposed an analysis of the role of the media and the new role of victims of crime in the construction of a problem that, by reducing the complexities of the adolescent social question to a mere criminal matter, promotes punitivism as the only desirable and possible solution.

Author Biography

Luis Eduardo Morás, Facultad de Derecho Universidad de la República Uruguay

Doctor en Sociología (IUPERJ, 1999)

Profesor Titular de Sociología

Director del Instituto de Sociología Jurídica

Universidad de la República

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Published

2016-11-16

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2016)

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