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Sumary
The criminal justice system acts based on a stereotype of the criminal that determines which cases
are going to be taken in to justice. The young criminal justice system has not been strange to this
process of secondary and selective criminalization based on a stereotype. During the use of the
patronage law and the criminal and complementary regime, the juvenile stereotype was defined in the
law as a situation of material abandon or moral danger that justifies the application of tutelary
and judicial measures. The definition designed in the early of the 20th century was directed
principally to the child s immigrants of lower economics resources, then, this stereotype was
directed to the poor urban childhood.
In the last ten years, legal reforms were produced and the judicial operators started to apply more
commonly the international norms of human rights. ¿But those reforms had any effects in the
modification of the system selectivity? |
