Uso de drogas e ato infracional: representações sociais de adolescentes em conflito com a lei

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Andrade, Samkya Fernandes de Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Psicologia Social; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Social; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Adolescente em conflito com a lei; Adolescents in conflict with the law; Representação social; Droga; Ato infracional; Social representations; Infractional act; Drugs; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/7641

Under the view of the Theory of Social Representations, it's aimed to get to know and analyze the social representations concerning the use of drugs among the adolescents in conflict with the law and existence of a link with the infractional act. It is a research with qualitative methodology as main reference. The sample is composed of 31 adolescents in conflict with the law, under reclusion of social and educational measures in João Pessoa – PB. As instruments were used: sociodemographic questionnaire; test of free word association (Inductive stimulus: crime, drug, family); Thematic story drawing(“Draw a person that uses drugs”), and semistructured interview. The data were analyzed attending the following methods: the sociodemographic questionnaire used was the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences; the free associations were processed by the software Evocation; the interviews were treated by the Thematic Content Analyses. The results indicated that the adolescents are, averagely, 16.2 years old (SD = 0.78), of which 74.1% already used illicit drugs, being marijuana (N=21/30.3%) the most consumed one. As for the infractional act that motivated the reclusion, 41.9% refers to robbery. The drug is represented negatively, as responsible for bringing health issues and family conflicts. The family is represented as protection object and source of advices. Thus, the present research proposed to contribute in the perspective of have the adolescents in conflict with the law listened, who, many times, for being in a situation of social exclusion, have their questions constantly silenced. Hence, only this way, will be possible to articulate the different contexts in which the adolescents are immersed, in the promotion of public politics concerning health, education, leisure, safety, among others, preventing and intervening more efficiently.