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Adolescents’ homicide: thinking about some associated factors

This research is an investigation of some factors associated to homicides committed against adolescents, at the city of Ribeirão Preto (SP), in which, during the period of 1995-1998, 101 children and adolescents were killed. The collect and analysis of data were made throughout the association of the following methods: sociographics data enrollment, analysis of taken lawsuits in the local prosecuting counsel; participant observation of the local internment institution, destined to adolescents authors of infraction acts; interview with intern adolescents for homicide acts (n=8). As a result one may state that the life conditions that ends on death of adolescents are product of a synchronization of factors, where, besides the fragility of institutions, one may observe determinants the dispute for appropriation of goods, conflict of financial interests, drug traffic and, a mode of producing of interpersonal relationship, of which resolution of conflictive situation materializes in non mediate and violent ways.

Homicide; adolescence; violence; drug traffic


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