Abstract

JIMENEZ, Luciene; MEIRELES ANDRADE, Elisa  and  BATISTELLA BIANCHINI, Luciane Guimarães. Drug consumption and criminal offences: Integrative review of Brazilian articles. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2016, vol.14, n.2, pp.939-955. ISSN 1692-715X.  https://doi.org/10.11600/1692715x.14204170715.

This study analyzed sixty Brazilian scientific articles published between 2004 and 2014 on the practice of illegal acts and drug use in adolescence, using an integrative review approach. The SciELO, PePSIC, PsycINFO, BVS and Lilacs databases were used to collect data along with the help of a Google alert. The search had a simple methodology (non- Boolean), for the analysis the articles were divided into three groups: 1 -drug use, 2 -criminal offence, 3 -relationship between the two events. The results demonstrated that the structural, psychosocial and individual factors may expose or protect the teenagers in these situations. However, the relationship between criminal behavior and drug use could not be confirmed, because researchers tend to choose different subjects, adolescents from different social classes, ethnic groups, educational levels, etc. and different fields and methods of study.

Keywords : Periodicals as topic; adolescence; drug use; juvenile delinquency.

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