ABSTRACT
In this article, which assumes as its main goal to contribute to the understanding of the relationship between juvenile crime and the response of the state through socio-educational measures, we tried to explain the background of current scientific research. We performed a meta-analysis of Brazilian articles on juvenile crime and socio-educational measures in the field of psychology published between 2000 and 2012. We concluded that articles can be divided in three broad categories: (a) practical-experiential, presenting experience reports or technical difficulties in implementing measures, emphasizing concrete experience; (b) political-institutional, discussing critically the political dimension of the logic behind social-educational measures, focusing on a structural analysis of their laws and institutions; (c) sociocultural, analyzing the social and psychological determinants of the phenomenon of juvenile violence.
Keywords:
adolescence; socioeducative measures; Children and Adolescent Code; teenager in conflict with the law