THE CORRECTIONAL CHARACTER OF SOCIO-EDUCATIONAL POLICY IN BRAZIL: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

This article discusses part of research that aimed to deepen the concept of socio-educational, used within the scope of socio-educational measures provided for in the Statute of Children and Adolescents (ECA) applied to adolescents who commit infractions, from a historical materialist perspective and dialectic. The objective was to critically analyze, from official documents that deal with socio-educational measures, how adolescents have been seen and treated within the scope of socio-educational policy. The analysis was carried out from the construction of meaning cores apprehended in the document reading. It was demonstrated that, despite the apparent discourse of Integral Protection to the adolescent who committed an infraction and the change of paradigm in the socio-educational policy, there is a predominance of a proposal of socio-educational practice with a correctional bias. It is noticeable that the idea of guaranteeing the right is restricted only to bourgeois citizenship in an uncritical way, so much so that it is accompanied by the affirmation of the need to guarantee the security of the population, that is, guarantee the social order. Therefore, after more than thirty years of enactment of the ECA, the minority practice is still in force when it comes to teenagers who commit infractions. However, a proposal of emancipatory socio-educational will only be possible if it has is its starting point the social historical context of Brazil. Disregarding the class and color cut when it comes to juvenile offenders is to hide the reality of Brazilian socio-educational.