Resumo

BURGOS, Álvaro. La cenicienta adolescente: mujer, criminalidad e internamiento en la jurisdicción penal juvenil de Costa Rica. Med. leg. Costa Rica [online]. 2001, vol.18, n.2, pp.20-27. ISSN 2215-5287.

In Costa Rica, according to the imprisonment statistics registered in the Juvenile Criminal Law System, gender is the factor that most dramatically projects deep differences among the youth and adolescent population that has been arrested or sentenced.

Palavras-chave : Criminal Law; Juvenile Criminal Law; Youth; Adolescents; Imprisonment; Criminality; Women; Gender.