In this article articulates the importance of paternal role for the development of children and adolescents, and the lack of this function makes the young look for one that carries. Many times during this search, the adolescents commit illegal acts, leading them into conflict with the law and therefore contact with the actors of justice, which may represent the limits that these adolescents sought. The methodology adopted is qualitative epistemology, which focuses on the participatory analysis of the interview. For this analysis were interviewed actors involved in the processes of justice with adolescents in conflict with the law where they discussed the shortfall in the Federal District in relation to public policy and the urgency of mobilizing society to have favorable results in the development of work with adolescents in conflict with the law.
paternal function; teenager in conflict with the law; justice actors