The objective of this paper is to promote political-conceptual reflection on urban violence using emotions as a category of analysis. As such, this article takes ethnographic records and interviews with young male coming from the Adolescents in Conflict with the Law program (Programa Liberdade Assistida) in Olinda, Pernambuco as its empirical core, while focusing on the categories "pain" and "rebellion" as important elements of a discursive analysis of social inequalities produced by the participants themselves. In general, this analysis is based on a debate about "affect" as a potential category of psychosocial analysis in conjunction with a multi-dimensional analysis that includes gender, class, race/ ethnicity, and generation.
violence; affect; gender