A experiência da internação entre adolescentes: práticas punitivas e rotinas institucionais / The confinement experience among adolescents: punitive practices and institutional routines

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

I seek to investigate how the confinement experience as means of punishment is structured. Through fieldwork in Fundação CASA units I aim to understand how the institutional practices and routines are in relation with conceptions of juvenile justice and the way it defines the experience of juvenile inmates. The research was based on visits to a juvenile detention center and interviews with inmates in a semi-liberty unit with progressive measure. The institution is analyzed through the concept of total institution, which allows one to reflect on how its elements communicate meaning and information which, in turn, act upon the inmate and serve as a guide for his behavior. The juveniles behavior and interactions were interpreted not as consequence of their personality or life course, but instead, as resulting from the punishment experience and the socialization of the environment. The tension between educational and repressive ideas of punishment, typical of juvenile justice, was central to the legislation and institutional practices. On one side, educational views have more legitimacy and, based on the not-yet-person status of juveniles, integrates the institutions official aims and intended effects. This view manifests itself in the attempt to change the juvenile through the Individual Accompaniment Plan. On the other side, based on the imminent danger of dealing with criminals, the security procedures of the institutional routine also inform the inmates of an imminent danger. The conflictive process in trying to protect ones self from prescribed definition is accompanied by tensions in relating with those whose definition also results from the information associated with belonging to an institution meant for dangerous individuals. To avoid the becoming of such danger, there is an increase in rules for conduct that may regulate these interactions and thus, guarantee predictability.

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adolescentes informal rules instituição total juvenile detention center juveniles punição punishment regras informais total institution unidade de internação

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