Abstract
Through qualitative research that combines analysis of judicial records and interviews, this article analyses the influence of expert reports on judicial decisions. The receptivity of these discursive pieces in the Juvenile Courts of Montevideo is studied, giving account of the influence of the description of the adolescent biographies as if the life trajectories of the subjects explained the motives of the transgressive conduct to the penal law, predicting its future, in a kind of counterfactual forecast of risks, impossible to empirically verify, inextricably associated with the concept of dangerousness.
Keywords:
Expert reports; Forecasts; Dangerousness; Biographical trajectories; Juvenile penal system