Adolescentes em liberdade assistida: uma análise psicossocial

Abstract

This research aims the comprehension of the senses attributes to offender teenagers, submitted to the socio educational programme of assisted freedom. It's based on interviews done with seven teenagers, being five boys and two girls, at the headquarters of the Assisted Freedom Program, in Goias estate, Brazil, which has as reference the sociohistorical approach proposed by Vigotsky. It initially recovers the history of the inclusion by the exclusion of the poor teenage in Brazil, by directed public politics to the offender teenagers, reviewing the historical term "minor", that associates the poor teenagers to delinquency, and the attempt, based on the ECA to restructure the relations between society and the teenager in conflict with the law. The naturalized conceptions about the teenagers are then submitted to discussions, focussing the process its development and the character necessarily social and historical of its personality, and therefore the offender teenager is shown, in a context of the contemporary society, bringing up the fundamental ideological elements that fulfil the dialectic relation between this teenager with the social reality. It shows that, contradictory and ambiguous, the feelings emerge from the voices of the teenagers interviewed not only reveal their concrete reality, but also the reproduction of ideological values, as the reinclusion to school, work or good behavior, proposed by the Assisted Freedom Program. Past-present-future appear in their speech as a "normal" aspect, that naturalizes their childhood, their socio condition, their life perspective, and shows their inclusion by the socio exclusion, which would stop the perception and the critics about the values of the capitalist society, and about their own temporality and historicity. To conclude, the Assisted Freedom is questioned as an institution that serves the dominant class interests, and pretends the conformism and adaptation, while as a term that could refer to actually assist the teenager who search for freedom having a critic knowledge of its social and historical reality, allowing him to become a subject, not an object.