The article provides a historical overview on how Brazilian law has addressed the topic of child and youth since the Minors Code to the Children and Adolescent Statute, prioritizing adolescents in conflict with law. From the National Mapping of Socio-educational Measures in Semi-Open Conditions and the Index of Homicide in Youth lists the profile of Brazilian youths that integrate the socio educative system in semi-open conditions with youths homicide victims: they are male, poor and low-schooling, living in metropolitan areas of large urban centers; although it has been observed in the recent years a process of violent deaths moving inland. Starting from the comprehensions of discipline and biopower as postulated by Michel Foucault, we seek to promote reflections regarding the incidence of socio-educational measures around a determined group, precisely the one that day-by-day monopolizes mortality statistics resulting from violent causes.
adolescent on conflict with the law; discipline; biopower; homicide