As Alternativas às Penas e às Medidas Socioeducativas: estudo comparado entre distintos modelos de controle social punitivo

Abstract

The article presents the normative framework of alternatives to sanctions and the mechanisms of procedural diversification in the Brazilian Law, more specifically in laws 8.069/90, 9.099/95 and 9.714/78. In a comparative approach, it evaluates both the penal law system and the juvenile law system of response to offenses, highlighting the penalties applicable to young offenders in conflict with the law. The study analyzes the process of community service, problematizing the existing tension between alternative sanctions to incarceration and the expansion of the punitive power in the contemporary world (punitivism).