“…We recognize that the experiences of periphery youth cannot be reduced to the dynamics and moralities of the world of crime, given that they are constituted and affected by dynamics related to politics (GROPPO and SILVEIRA, 2020;PLAZA SCHAEFER, 2018), culture (ABRAMO, 1994;DIÓGENES, 2013;ADERALDO, 2017), education (DAYRELL, 2007;KHOMYAKOV, DWYER and WELLER, 2020;SPOSITO, 2008), work (CORROCHANO, ABRAMO and ABRAMO, 2018;GUIMARÃES , 2005;LIMA and PIRES, 2020), and involvement in social projects (MEDAN, 2014;MOTTA, 2019;SOUZA, 2009), among others. Our focus in this article is on youth experiences in Brazil's urban peripheries in the face of criminal governance, since in contemporary times these experiences have proven to be analytically useful for understanding the nuances of the ways in which criminal governance is exercised and experienced in different contexts.…”