The Delinquency Evolution in Brazil and the Legal System Actions

Abstract

Analysis of delinquency in Brazil and the characteristics of its evolution, bringing as focus its legal system. It aims to analyze crime in Brazil from the legal psychology perspective; study the origins of the practice of crimes in the country; analyze impunity and its relationship with the criminal practice; investigate the effectiveness of contemporaneous crime containment policies in Brazil. The research type is bibliographical, and the source of the data and statements used are found in articles found at the internet, concerning Legal Psychology, criminal statistics, criminology and contemporary crime containment policies. It found the existence of a gradual complexity of approaches to delinquency and the relationship that the penal and judicial system has in the perpetuation of disorders, due to an unevenness between the Brazilian reality and legal practice. It concludes that the criminal practice in Brazil is composed of several aspects, as long as social factors connected to the individual formation to deficient characteristics that the justice system presents and that contribute to the abidance of the crimes.