Abstract
In the year 2007 the law of legal responsability of minors came into force in Chile. In consequence a series of programs oriented to the intervention of adolescents have been developed. Those programs have had a strong emphasis on substance treatment and rehabilitation. The present paper searchs to look at said process from a critical perspective using a genealogical aproach. It takes note of the rise of a new area of action to the knowledges psi, the law infractor minor as a result of configuration and assembly processes of three areas of government: punishment and imprisonment, minors care and drug use control. It concludes with the propousal of a critical comprehensive frame for the analysis of practice and discourse around the intervention of this new subject.
adolescence; law infractor; addiction; genealogy; Chile