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The criminalization of the social issue is intrinsically related to the social structures of capital. Thus, it answers for hegemonic interests of untying capitalist structures of its process of production and reproduction. This paper analyses the social process underlying the appearance of the social issue. It explains its naturalization as an instrument of this process, which leads to increasing criminalization of the social issue in a context of alienation of the State from social demands. Specifically, this paper addresses the penalization of misery in Brazil, focusing on "adolescents in conflict with the law". This analysis allows to highlight social structures that reproduce the hegemonic social order and points to the extremism of the capitalist society, that currently is showing itself as even more cruel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to reflect critically on the care to adolescents accused of authoring infractions in Brazil, from the analysis of quantitative data from their national surveys of social and educational care from 2009 to 2012 carried out by the Human Rights Secretariat of the Presidency Republic. Considering the indexes that refer to a gradual increase in the number of teenagers admitted in closed institutions we analyze, the permanence of the institutionalization of culture and focused confinement, poor adolescents considered offenders, which in our view, even actual after the enactment of the Child and Adolescent Statute and the proposition of the National Socio-Educational Services System. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]