Neoliberalism, marginalization and juvenile delinquency

Abstract

The current discussion about juvenile infractions of law in a neoliberal framework, limits its causes to individual decisions and gives penal policy the pre-eminence to face it. Such perspective dissociates in general the crimes in regards their context and specifically on the consequences of  neoliberal socioeconomic system in society.  That is to say, for the case of that majority of the population abandoned by the Subsidiary State, the cultural dynamics of formation of identity or of ties of belonging, and the structural marginalization that implies a decreasing access to the resources and socioeconomic opportunities are ignored.  Such setting of constant and general precariousness is transformed into an influence or  material and cultural encouragement to access through crime to those resources and opportunities.  Thus, to intend to solve socioeconomic problems preferably by penal media is an ineffective, incomplete and ideological perspective.