Para una lectura crítica de Daniel Miguez: jóvenes latinoamericanos en contextos urbanos. Análisis de la obra Delito y cultura. Códigos de la ilegalidad en la juventud marginal urbana

Abstract

Daniel Miguez’ book Crimen y cultura revolves a fieldwork of over a decade, where he visited, among other sites, juvenile courts, institutions and recovery homes, prisons, bailantas and neighborhoods as well as homes and altars risen in memory of young dead. Miguez builds a solid ethnographic portrait, conceptually supported and attached to his original statement: the criminal subculture. This subculture has, like any other, ties in tension with the dominant culture, which explains the uncertainty with which these young people can vindicate the crime in the illegal spheres yet trying to join the world of the "legal".