The youths envolved in serious infractions in São Paulo city get the attention for the cruelty with that they practice those actions. They are young, as much of the periphery as of wealthier neighborhoods. The media collaborates boasting those events focusing mainly the youths of the periphery. It is also spoken in gangs in the city, but the research could not find that phenomenon. Through interviews we can notice the different forms of performance of those young ones and the cruelty with that they practice their actions. Those actions indicate that the relationships based on reciprocity are broken letting to emerge other social bows ruled through power attraction and the destruction of the other.
Juvenile delinquency; Homicides; Gangs; Adolescents offenders; Delinquents youths; Cruelty