Invisible adolescents and the White Juvenile Justice System: the modus operandi ofracismin SINASE
Rights of children and adolescents. Racism. Socio-education System. Juvenile Justiçe System.
This work aims to analyze which elements constitute the modus operandi ofracism in the structure of the Juvenile Justice System (SJJ), gateway to the NationalSocio-educationService(Sinase)and responsible forinvestigatingthe infraction attributed to the teenager and the application of socio-education measures. It is intended todiscusstherelationshipbetweenracism,whitenessandSinase,establishedby Resolution n. 119, of December 11, 2016 of the National Council for the Rights of Children andAdolescents (CONANDA), as a public policy aimed at the inclusion of teenagers inconflict with the law. This is a qualitative and empirical research, whose methodologicalstrategies are a narrative literature review, documentary analysis, non-participantobservation and the application of an online form to SJJ actors. The literature reviewallowed the survey allowed the survey of studies on Sinane and SJJ, especially works thatdeal with the institutional racism present in both systems. The documentary analysis ofinternational, national and state regulations on the rights of children and adolescents, aswell as those that regulate Sinase and SJJ, contributed to the discussion on structure,functioning, practices and principles that should guide the two systems. Furthermore,minutes of hearings and legal proceedings of the SJJ in the city of São Paulo are analyzed.The non-participant observation, carried out at the Brás Forum, located in the city of SãoPaulo, as well as the application of the form to agents working in this Forum, aimed tounderstand the structure, dynamics, practices and relationships between SJJ agents andadolescents served. To analyze the research results, we propose a dialogue between thetheoretical perspectives of Critical Race Studies, Whiteness Studies and ethnic-RacialStudies, as well as the use of the analytical categories racism and Whiteness. Through thisstudy, it is possible to understand how the selectivity of the SJJ which predominantlyreaches black teenagers and young people, and is institutional reality are closely related toracism and whiteness that maintain inequality of opportunity and threaten the existence ofthe black population in Brazil and, also, how this institutional reality prevents Sinase from becoming a public policy yo protect adolescents and young people in conflict with the law.