A construção de sujeitos ilegais: contextualização histórica da Justiça juvenil no Brasil e análise do perfil dos adolescentes em cumprimento de medida socioeducativa de internação na comarca de Juiz de Fora

Abstract

The following work presents the data demonstrating the situation of Juiz de Fora regarding the profile of it´s young people - with restricted freedom in the Socio-educational Center of Juiz de Fora. The objective is to analyze the socioeconomic context in which these adolescents are inserted, from the data collection, correlating the specificities of social and economic development and the criminal policy of the city of Juiz de Fora with the incarceration of its adolescents and with the historical evolution of Juvenile Justice in Brazil. To this end, from a methodological perspective, structured interviews were carried out with the Socio-Educational Center of Juiz de Fora through a questionnaire. Based on the data collected were analyzed the ethnic-racial and socioeconomic profiles of adolescents born in Juiz de Fora who are serving a socio-educational measure of internment. The analysis suggests the existence of a tendency: that adolescents considered irregular are, eminently, a portrait of poor and black youth, historically the preferred target of criminalization in Brazilian society. From the research findings, it is suggested the portrayal of a socially constructed category, which presents race and class as its main pillars: the category of illegal subjects.