Abstract
The journey of young people who practice infractions experience is far from being that exploited by discourses of the minor and the guilty, of a perverse and dangerous life. In fact, many factors come into play, like family life, affective bonds that, in a marginal situation, mediate their relationship with drugs and crime, but also allow new connections and a continuous flourishing. Based on the theoretical and methodological assumptions of the Actor-Network Theory and Cartography, expanding the statistical-legal view of juvenile infractions and making obsolete the individualizing and causal logics, this article intends to discuss youth and infractions act, their relationship with the Socio-educational Measures (MSE) of Assisted Freedom (AF) and give visibility to the actors that make up these subjects’ historical networks, as well as shine a light on the intricacies that make up these connections and their engenderings. Yasmim’s singular life history will exemplify, in a certain way, the obstacles and hardships that are entangled in the network established by adolescents in compliance with AF, as well as the attempts, efforts, and resistances that are engendered in a constant (re)construction of life. This study allowed a better understanding of the processes that are woven to configurate the act considered illicit.
Keywords:
Youth; Assisted Freedom; Actor-Network Theory; Infraction Act