This chapter challenges dominant narratives that isolate youth behaviour from its social context, making a critique of the youth justice system for criminalizing youth, especially marginalized youth, without consideration of systemic inequalities, or of their oppressed status as “minors” (under-18s) who are part of an adultist society. Thus, it calls for a more structure-aware approach to youth justice and the realities of the youth affected by the juvenile justice system, that recognizes young people’s structural constraints and lived experiences, and works to boost their inevitably relational agency. The chapter ends by posing that education in JJCs has to act as “anti-fate”, a politically motivated practice that, in the words of Violeta Núñez (1999), “directly challenges the immovable allocation of an already foreseen future” in our marginalized, criminalized and oppressed youth.