Abstract

MEDINA, Federico. How long will it take me to get out of all this?. Cuad. antropol. soc. [online]. 2021, n.53, pp.137-152.  Epub May 06, 2021. ISSN 1850-275X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.34096/cas.i53.8480.

This article adopts an anthropological perspective to describe and analyze the local uses and diverse meanings associated with the implementation of “alternative measures” on young people, by the Office of Alternative and Substitute Measures of the Judicial Power of Santiago del Estero, an Argentine province located in the Northwest region.To do this, I resort to the reconstruction of various ethnographic situations that occurred in that judicial unit within the framework of my doctoral research, seeking to investigate the perspectives of both the young people who pass through that office and the institutional actors who interact with them during the process of executing these measures. The central argument aims to illuminate the daily dimension of this judicial unit’s operation, showing that the use of alternative measures takes on domestic forms and particular local uses that are sustained on the same topics upon which the traditional.

Keywords : Alternative measures; Uses; Criminal proceedings; Youth; Ethnography.

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