A condição sub-humana do infrator menor

• Ano de defesa: 1982
• Autor(a) principal: Siqueira, Maria Dilma Ferreira
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte; Brasil; UFRN; Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação; Centro de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
• Palavras-chave em Português: comportamento infrator; estudo da infração
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/48292

This study, an exploratory one, has as its main goal to raise elements for understanding the delinquent behavior of adolescents admitted. to the Juvenile Re-ed.ucation Center of Rio Grande do Norte State (Centro de Reeducação do Menor do Rio. Grande do Norte), through a period from 197.1 to 1981. The research was carried out in four stages: 1) characterization of the subjects: 2) analysis of the conditions of socialization and resocialization of the interviewed inmates; 3) validation testing on the interviews; 4) analysis of the perceptions the subjects have about their conditions of existence and their life projects. The collected data showed that the inmates1 conditions of socialization have been marked with poverty and dereliction. Their parents, unable to fulfil their roles, have abandoned their offspring or felt inapt to exercise any control on its trajectory. Confinement has been accepted as practicable altérnative for their problem children. School has not scheltered them from delinquent life. It has rather reinforced their stigmatization, by expelling or punishing the "ill-integrated". Only the streets have provided the arena where these inmates have fought their way and have learned. behavioral patterns which are considered delinquent. The repression system has not functioned as a corrective, and confinement has not afforded them opportunities for social awareness and getting an occupation. Their perceptions reproduce the dominant ideology when they assess themselses negatively and impute their delinquent behavior to mediation factors and to their own personal characteristics. They are sceptlcal about their recuperation possibilities in the local 'environment and imagine migrating to the south of the»country, expecting to obtain jobs and “normal*' social identities. The broader social environment where the so called juvenile delinquent's problem has evolved shows that juvenile delinquency roots in the overexploitation of the lower classes by the capitalist accumulatiòn model prevalent in Brazil, more conspicuously in its northeastern region, where inequalities of life conditions are much more observable.