In Brazil, it's terrifying the number of people killed every year. However, some aspects call
the attention in this scenario: the statistics show a colossal number of people from the same
social group, age group and ethnicity being annihilated daily. The black youth and or nearly
black because it's too poor has been part of more than half the number of deaths. From this
context it is practically inevitable not problematize the practice of the daily extermination
against this segment of the population. The most visible part of that extermination practice
can be seen in the performance of the criminal justice system, especially in the intense
criminalization of the youth at the present stage of neoliberalism. Assuming that there is no
extermination without the construction of discourses that legitimize it ( "truth discourses that
can kill," according to Foucault), the research's main problem is to know how the practice of
extermination of the black youth is performed and legitimized through speeches around the
lives of young people in Brazil. Using as reading keys the contributions of critical
criminology and biopower, we intend to analyze how these discourses in the social body and
in an institution (childhood and youth justice) is (re)produced and how they operate in the
legitimization of death, becoming "speeches that they kill". From this, we aim to discuss these
deaths not as simple random and isolated events but as part of an permanent process of
criminalization and extermination of popular youth in Brazil.
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