O adolescente e a medida socioeducativa de prestação de serviços à comunidade

Abstract

The interest in this theme emerges from the researcher s experience in guided works with adolescents rendering community services as a socio-educational measure. The aim of this study is to investigate the significances and meanings given by adolescents to the community services measure, considering that their points of view have played a more and more important role in the actions which give visibility to this theme. The research was made with two adolescents, from two different institutions, responsible for rendering community service as a socio-educational measure, in the countryside of Paraná. The objective is to discuss, from these adolescents points of view, the following factors: their experiences; the meaning of the measure; how they understand it in what it is concerned with infractions; their perception of the context in which they are inserted. For this, the study follows the Sociohistorical Psychology theory, the qualitative approach methodology and the construction of significance poles for the understanding of the constitution of the meaning-significances investigated in the interviews. In the first interview, the interpretative processes produced three significance poles: The socio-educational measure of rendering community services as redemptive and educational; The social relations in the resignificance process and The fear of being judged by others: the perception of oneself. In the second interview, there are two significance poles: The affective mediation in the act of rendering community services as a socio-educational measure and The socio-educational measure of rendering community services as a shelter for one s problems. It becomes evident that giving voice to adolescents may represent a concrete and practical possibility of building up new social relations. The category of adolescents in conflict with the law has significance only when seen from its relation with the social practices expressed by the different agents of public policy offered to this populations, in the confront between adolescents and professionals interpretations of their insertion in projects and social programs