Professional intervention with young people inserted in the juvenile criminal responsibility system Against the consumption of psychoactive substances: punishability or protection of rights?

Abstract

This paper intends to analyze the professional intervention in devices that work with young people inserted in the Juvenile Criminal Responsibility System, in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, denaturing the punitive view of the problem of psychoactive substance use. The proposed analysis is based on understanding the consumption as a problem of health and from current regulations to seek to problematize the punitive response, to account for the different levels of consumption and to denaturalize the stigmatizing relationship between crime and problematic consumption.