JUVENILE INCARCERATION UNDER THE DISCOURSE OF EDUCATION: THE PUNITIVE SELECTIVITY OF SOCIO-EDUCATION
Education; Incarceration; Youth; Rights; Socio-education
This paper addresses the phenomenon of youth in conflict with the law under socio-educational correctives measures in the context of detention in the Distrito Federal. We analyze the reality of youth in spaces of deprivation of liberty based on mass incarceration as an intrinsic element of the neoliberal economic social model. To do so, we propose the observation of the socio-educational environment, using the Case Study as a methodological strategy, to understand the socio-education in its daily practice in the Unidade de Internação de São Sebastião - UISS. This detention facility has been marked by the socio-educational policies of the last decade, subsequent to the implementation of the Sistema Nacional de Atendimento Socioeducativo - SINASE. Largely inspired by the assumptions of the 1988 Federal Constitution, the model of socio-education that emerges from this scenario has reimagined Brazilian socioeducational care, with emphasis on guaranteeing rights. However, despite the paradigmatic advance verified, we are interested in discussing what the socio-educational practice has perpetuated in their subjectivities. In this direction, we start from the evidence that socio-education, as we have it today, persists the incarceration of the same population profile, characterized by black and peripheral youth. Therefore, we have proposed a direct relationship between the punitive perpetuation of the black population and the colonial consequences in its structure. Bringing the topic into the perspective of the racialization of the debate in a decolonial purpose, this research has aimed to understand the relationship between the juvenile trajectories achieved by such public policies and the racialization of imprisonment in its structure, manifested historically also in the socioeducation, under the discourse of education and re-socialization.