This study has carried out a first analytical approach between a contempo-rary criminological theory and a specific Latin American problem, to verify explanatory possibilities. Per-Olof H. Wikström’s Situational Action Theory of Crime (TASCD) was used to analyze the participation of adolescents and young people in drug trafficking. Some previous field work carried out in the favelas of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was used as the object of study. A fruitful dialogue was verified, both regarding the con-firmation of the theory and regarding taking a few steps further in understanding the criminological phenomenon evaluated.
Keywords:
Criminology, drug traffic, juvenile delinquency, social conflict, violence
Author Biography
Clarissa Pepe Ferreira, Universidad de São Paulo
Clarissa Pepe Ferreira es doctora «sobresaliente cum laude» en Sicología Social del programa de Doctorado en Investigación e Intervención Social y Comunitaria de la Universidad de Málaga, España, en cotutela con el programa de Doctorado en Sicología Social de la Universidad de São Paulo, Brasil. Experta en Criminología de la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, España. Magister en Criminalidad e Intervención Social en Menores de la Universidad de Málaga. Experta en seguridad pública y ciudadanía en Flacso Brasil (Río de Janeiro). Licenciada en Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales (Derecho) de la Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro, Brasil. Investigadora colaboradora en el laboratorio INCIDIR de la Universidad de São Paulo.
Pepe Ferreira, C. (2020). The Situational Action Theory of Crime and its explanatory possibilities of a Latin American problem. Anuario De Derechos Humanos, 16(2), 411–436. https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-2279.2020.58820