Juventudes, violência e políticas públicas: tensões entre o instituído e o instituinte

Abstract

The purpose of this text is to try to understand the ways by which public policies for youth have been developed and what such actions mean for the demands and appeals in the scope of juvenile violent acts. It is not a matter of following statistical data on the impact of public policies for the youth. It is intended to perceive how the actions, a priori, encoded under the sign of violence and its marks are taken into account for setting the youth public policies agenda. It is out of the focus of tension between the establishing aspects of juvenile practices; identified many times under the specter of risk and stigma; and the integration and participation precepts, mobilized by the actions established within the public policies, that this text discussion possibilities are presented. Youth violence sometimes acts as an enigma in the study areas and in the interventions within this subject, other times it acts as an oracle. We will follow research and intervention paths which permeate such scopes and the voice of its interlocutors.