Segurança ou criminalização dos adolescentes: confrontando o discurso da redução da maioridade penal no Brasil.

This paper presents a study of the participation of adolescents in criminal practices and indicators of public safety is performed. The aim will be to address the empirical data with speech advocates lowering the age of criminal policy. To carry out the work we're going to do a study of the arguments of some of the defense, in particular, parliamentarians and parliamentary amendments Project (CEP). Empirical data on the participation of adolescents in criminal practices were collected from the results of the survey "Study of Socio-Educational Municipal de Goiânia System" for the years 2012 and 2013. It is noted that there is a great discrepancy between the accounts linking criminal potential of adolescents and indices appearing effectively in indicators of violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]