Abstract
This article presents partial results of the research carried out in Goiânia, Goiás, between 2014 and 2017, on the adversarial system and the full defense of the adolescent in conflict with the law. The investigation was based on the assumption that the adolescents submitted to the hospitalization measure in Goiânia were not guaranteed their rights on the adversarial system and the full defense right in their judgments. To answer this hypothesis, we used different methodologies to understand the dynamics of the determination of the infraction, from the beginning, with the performance of the security system, until the final stage in the scope of specialized justice. We confirm our argument by observing two situations: the resurgence of a selective process that guides the security system to exercise greater control and punishment of the poorest sections of the population; and the performance of the special justice system, which paradoxically combines a rationality of criminal justice in the conduct of the process with a subjective judgment permeated by moral values, thus not breaking with the paradigm of the irregular situation.
Keywords:
Adolescent in conflict with the law; investigation of an infraction; full defense and adversarial system; juvenile justice; socio-educational system