Dupla função dos agentes de segurança socioeducativos: uma análise a partir da legislação e normativas de Minas Gerais

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the dual role of socio-educational agents, starting from the socio-educational center of Governador Valadares, in order to verify whether there is harmony between the security and socio-educational functions, and if so, how this compatibility occurs. The genesis of the profession of socio-educational security agent arises from the evolution of children's and adolescents' rights and mainly due to the insertion of the concept of socio-education, therefore, this profession emerges with a hybrid of attributions. In addition, the standardization of this profession is still scarce, which makes it even more difficult to understand the activities and functioning of this position, so that what prevails is a perpetuation of the doctrine of irregular situation, in which those responsible for the care of adolescents were the prison guards, which makes it difficult to institutionalize the ideas proposed by the legislation regarding the rights of children and adolescents. The difficulty of inserting the socio-educational function is further visualized from the analysis of the Single Regulation of the Socio-educational Centers of Minas Gerais and the competition notices for socio-educational security agents in Governador Valadares, where one can notice the predominance of duties related to security. For this purpose, the text by Juliana Vinuto “The other side of the coin” was used as a theoretical reference, and the qualitative method with a comprehensive and critical-reflexive bias was adopted as a methodology, since it seeks to critically analyze the positive aspects by comparing the legal discipline through the analysis of the legislation pertinent to the subject. Finally, it is concluded that there is a lack of compatibility between the functions to be performed by socio-educational security agents.