CHILD AND ADOLESCENT RIGHTS GUARANTEE SYSTEM; INSTITUTIONAL SHELTERING PROGRAMS; CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS; VULNERABLE SITUATION, HOMELESS SITUATION.
This thesis discusses the Child and Adolescent Rights Guarantee System (RGS), established by the Child and Adolescent Statute in 1990, especially between 2012 and 2016, but updated at the time of conclusion. It can be highlighted, from the RGS, a privileged point of view regarding the Sheltering Programs (SP) for children and adolescents in vulnerable situations, manly homelessness, considering the services of the aforementioned System as its simplest categories (MARX, 1982). The SP is perceived as a total social fact (MAUSS, 1974) due to its connection to all the other services and social profiles served by this System. In order to explore interactions between subjects and the structures within it, the relations between the Sheltering Institutions (SIs) with the Juvenile Justice System are considered. The analysis was focused mainly on Catholics Sheltering Institutions due to their prevalence within the RGS aiming to answer the following question: is it possible to establish a relation between the religious components of these organizations, the choices made at their establishment and the work and target profiles chosen for them? It is assumed that such a relation exists, insofar as this belonging deduces to a worldview and a set of particular values which would guide such choices and serve as leitmotiv. In this sense, a dialogue is established with Georg Simmel (1965) regarding the motivation of those who assist the poor and with Poole et al (2007) and Carlos Rodrigues Brandão (1988), respectively, regarding the importance of religion as a basic element for the modern world and of the Catholic religion for the Brazilian identity constitution. To this end, it was collected: a national sample of governmental and non-governmental ShelteringInstitutions and of the Juvenile Justice System; a municipal sample of RGS and SIs operators as well as other subjects indirectly involved, and of those
citadine scenarios, an institution can be highlighted, a Associação O Pequeno Nazareno from Fortaleza/CE. Qualitative research was carried out, supported by a series of semi-structured interviews, documental investigations as well as field work through snowball sampling, floating observation (GOLDMAN, 1999), interpretation of pictures and the documentary method (MARTINEZ, 2006), seeking to exercise pendular writing and reflection according to the concept of epistemological anarchism that “anything goes”. (FEYERABEND, 1977). A dialogue with some sociological tradition authors as well as with several specialized literature ones was established. The historical fabric of this policy network and phenomena associated with it such as social hygienism, menorismo, penal populism and what shall be termed lethalhygienism as well as public-private partnerships, stigma, social containment, responsibility for the care children, new spatiality dynamics regarding the street and the circulação de crianças (FONSECA, 2002), leading to the concept of the existence of liquid sociospaciality, as well as an asymmetry of forces with the studied policy network and the criminal networks. Finally, considerations are made regarding the Guarantee System and its Sheltering networks.