POSSIBLE TRIGGERING FACTORS FOR COMMITTING THE INFRINGEMENT

Abstract

This article is based on studies of social cognition on the theme factors that propitiate the committing of the infraction by adolescents in deprivation of liberty regime. The theme established the following guide question: what are the possible factors that favor the commission of an infraction? The authors are interested in the theme, because over the years the cycle of young people assisted by the socio-educational system is renewed, even with all the risks involved as well as deprivation of liberty and death, yet this movement of affiliation to illegal practices is frequent, which motivated researchers to study the theme. The work aims to be socially relevant, for all those who are interested in the reflection of a problem that affects society in general. The theoretical foundations of this article are in the fields of knowledge of social cognition, with regard to the social interaction of the subject, in developmental psychology about adolescence and in the Psychology of Education and Social about resocialization, based on legal norms. Methodologically, this is a bibliographical research that analyzed articles focused on the theme, where the authors reflect on factors of the insertion of adolescents in the practices of the infraction. It was possible to evidence that, father's absence, violence suffered in the family environment and socioeconomic issues tend to be factors related to the insertion of adolescents in illegal practices.