Estratégias de enfrentamento utilizadas por jovens não reincidentes em atos infracionais no Centro-Oeste brasileiro

Abstract

The study of the early encounter of developing individuals with the Justice is necessary in view of the growing increase in the indexes of young people directed to the fulfillment of Socio-educational Measures from North to South of the country, in addition to the widespread recidivism of misdemeanor each year. The present research proposed to listen and record the narrative of 12 (twelve) subjects who reached the legal age of majority, having fulfilled, during adolescence, some type of socio-educational measure for non-compliance with the laws and decided to choose paths that would distance them from the contravention in a medium-sized city of the Brazilian Midwest. The reports contained in the work bring generative information that can help the building of projects to support the most positive choices made by these and other young people, helping them to tread more fulfilling paths in their lives. Social constructionism and the teachings of narrative therapy provided the methodological paths through which we sought to identify significant elements that participants suggested as important for making their decisions, considering the influence of the sociocultural and family contexts on them. We had a lot of difficulty in getting in touch with possible research participants; as they should have been away from problems with the justice for at least three years, there was no up-to-date information about them, since the responsible institutions only have data on those who, at the time, were part of the enforcement process. Therefore, such disconnection from institutions prevented easy access to them. The results showed the need to expand educational projects that can include this contingent of young people who leave schools early and enter the judicial environment and who, once the measures have been complied with, disappear from the archives if they do not recur. Another important point noted was the lack of dialogue and integration between the institutions involved in the socio-educational processes, which should provide a contemporary way of seeing and living with these young people. In this way, the study pointed out a necessary opening of works that bring the institutions involved in the socio-education process together and that can adequately meet the demand of young people who enter the judicial system, expanding innovative services, which already exist in small numbers, such as Restorative Justice and the Advancement of the Young Apprentice. (In Portuguese, AJA). Our experience with the research has shown that, despite attempts to modernize institutional justice and education, our city will have to offer a greater volume of assistance, as well as follow-up that includes post-measures, to provide effective support for our youth taking decisions