Momenteel is de situatie voor de jonge crimineel zo dat als je geluk hebt je terecht komt in de gevangenis en als je pech hebt dan wordt je in een soort van "sociale justitie" door een pistoleiro afgemaakt. In ieder geval is de gewone bevolking het spuugzat dat al die gastjes na een paar dagen wer op vrije voeten rondlopen. Maar wat de echte oplossing is weet ik ook niet.
As violent crime sweeps Brazilian society, debate pits those favouring juvenile rehabilitation against those who demand adult punishment
Last July, Patricia fatally stabbed a female relative of her then-partner in a confrontation, provoked by what she described as continuous, poisonous innuendo. “I couldn’t stand it any more,” she said. “I took the life of another person.” She was just 17.
A heated debate over whether teenagers who commit violent crimes can be rehabilitated, or should be tried as adults and incarcerated in the country’s packed and dangerous prisons, has split Brazil. High-profile violent crimes involving adolescents have inflamed the issue and polarised opinion around a controversial measure in congress to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 18 to 16. A vote is planned this month.
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