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| Author(s): |
Gustavo D'Andrea
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Ribeirão Preto. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (PCARP/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2008-10-14 |
| Examining board members: |
Marina Rezende Bazon;
Moacyr Lobo da Costa Junior;
Corinne Davis Rodrigues
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| Advisor: | Marina Rezende Bazon |
| Abstract | |
The contribution of this search for scientific knowledge is in weaving considerations on the viability of the Brazilian study of crime in the light of the concepts of criminal career and developmental trajectories, with a portion devoted entirely to the relevant theoretical study, and another containing a quest for knowledge through empirical research. From a theoretical viewpoint, offers a summary of proposals relating to concepts of criminal career and trajectories of development of offending; from the empirical viewpoint, studies the offending activity of 157 male adolescents in order to verify the existence of careers, or patterns of offending activity, offering information and suggestions for the implementation of public policies in favor of individual and social development, with views geared to the phenomenon of juvenile delinquency. The focus of empirical research is descriptive, using information contained in legal proceedings filed in the office for Children, Youth and Elderly (body of the São Paulo Justice Court), in Ribeirao Preto, São Paulo, with a retrospective longitudinal view, the historic of offending among adolescents subject of the research, according to the available official records. Aiming a description of the variables on the facts prosecuted as offenses and on the individuals to whom these facts were attributed, there are the following key results: all male adolescents, in the data from this study, aged between 11 and 14 years on the date of the first police record (and which has originated a judicial offending process in Ribeirao Preto-SP) were processed at least twice; the infractions that processed more prominently in terms of frequency are the theft, robbery, the carrying of drugs, drug traffic and injury; the majority of subjects (89.3%) were processed by 2 to 7 violations, and thus reduced the number of subjects that are beyond this range; the participation of individuals in offending judicial proceedings increases with age on the date of the police record that results in a process; the ages with more intensity of police recordings originating processes are 16 and 17 years, accounting together with a 70.8% from a total of 514 events processed; moreover 95% of the individuals had their last official event recorded on the ages of 16 or 17 years. The age at the time of the first police record indicates the number of violations processed, in which the earlier the individual has police record (which leads to a process) the more he participates in cases and this participation will last more during the adolescence. Virtually there are no variation between the seriousness of the first and the last recorded violation. Challenges of the official data, as absences and conflicting information, is a crucial issue in the interpretation of results obtained in this study. (AU) | |