A percepção do adolescente/jovem em conflito com a lei acerca da medida socioeducativa de internação: apresentação dos impactos da privação da liberdade sob a ótica dos jovens que passaram pelo centro socioeducativo de Juiz de Fora

Abstract

The present study aims to present the perception of youths in conflict with the law about the socioeducational measure of internment. The study was made with youths who were in custody at the Juiz de Fora Socioeducational Centre in the period from 2008 to 2010. We present here the context of adolescents and youths’ involvement with criminality in capitalist society, considering both what is said in the Statute of the Child and Adolescent and the direction of social public policies that attend this segment. The purpose is also to understand how these young people perceive the deprivation of liberty experience as a mechanism that helps them, or not, to find a new life project that rescue their citizenship when they are out of the institution. To do so, we conducted a field survey using as data collection semi-structured interviews with youths originated from the institution mentioned. With the presentation of the speech of these subjects, the study provides evidence that lead to the interpretation of how the socioeducational measure of internment operationalization and implementation express themselves in the reality of national policy for socioeducational care in the context of a neoliberal Brazil. It also considers the need for greater involvement of all participants involved in this process by ensuring the basic rights of adolescents and young people who take, through deprivation of liberty, the responsibility for involvement in the act of committing an infraction.