This papers presents the results of research carried out between 2013 and 2014 on the discursive orders around second offenses of juvenile offenders in the city of Manizales. Theoretically, the research is based on certain approaches by Michel Foucault on the discursive order, a notion that refers to the set of historically determined anonymous rules that are imposed on subjects who speak and define their speech at a specific time and space. Epistemologically, this study was based on a constructionist perspective that addresses social phenomena as relational situations supported by speeches; never individual, but collective. The use of discourse analysis in this qualitative study resulted in the following emerging categories: discourses about family, about the system of criminal responsibility for teenagers, and about juvenile offenders. A common denominator was dominant discourses of deficit based on a “lack of” and that do not enhance generative aspects in people and situations.