A teoria do aprendizado social e a questão do menor infrator

Abstract

The current paper aims to bring Criminology to the debate of criminal sanctions and those sanctions oriented to juvenile offenders. First, there is an exposure of the ideological perspectives that justify the imposition of prision time. After that, we present Criminology as a science that could have important impacts in our understanding of public punitive system, and then we present the Social Learning Theory, which is the theoretical reference. In the end, we suggest some changes that juvenile offenders system should undergo so that it is suitable to the criminological perspective here adopted.