Considerations on consumption in modernity open up ways to think about the possibility of the emergence of criminal actions as a means of access to goods, giving to some people the key to belong to social groups, in which one can only take part with the possession of distinctive elements. This paper aims at discussing concepts that can relate to communication, consumption and crime in youth, based on the question: is it possible to establish a connection between the media discourse (direct or subliminal) - a set of journalistic advertising and entertainment narratives on the consumption and use of goods - and the construction of youth identity, leading some of them to criminal actions as a way to possess these objects? The understanding of the cultural dimension of the criminal act as a means of access to goods emerges through the interface of studies about consumption, youth and crime.
consumption culture; media; significant and meaning; youth; crime