A racionalidade prática do isolamento institucional

Um estudo da execução da medida socioeducativa de internação em São Paulo

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ID5850865
AuthorsBruna Gisi Martins De Almeida (corresponding author), Bruna Gisi (0000-0003-1150-5808, corresponding author)
Year2016
Publication date2016-10-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeTHESIS
PublisherUniversidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11606/t.8.2016.tde-25102016-125922
OpenAlexW2591038402
LanguageES
Citations received1
References cited11

The development of this work was guided by the following research question: What upholds the practical rationality of the institutional isolation as an intervention for young offenders?To carry out this investigation, the object of inquiry were the folk theories about delinquency and about punishment employed in the practical reasoning of the actors responsible for the detention of young offenders.From an ethnomethodological perspective, the objective is to understand which interpretive procedures are involved in the actors' use of folk theories as means to produce the rational accountability of their activities.The empirical research was conducted at the organizations responsible for the implementation of the institutional isolation in Sao Paulo.In order to access the folk theories, the empirical data consists mostly of interviews and institutional documents.The result of the analysis is that the practical rationality of the institutional isolation of delinquents is sustained by interpretive procedures adopted analogously by both the judges and the detention centers' staff.These interpretive procedures transforms "structural" attributes, external to actionformulated as causes of the offense in the folk theoriesinto individual characteristics that can be changed by the institutional action and by the adolescents' will.On the one hand, the judges' use of the adolescents' "criticism" (showing repentance and empathy for the victim) as a criteria for deciding when to release them from detention, makes the institutional isolation reasonable since it will act upon and evaluate over time the development of this individual and moral attribute, the lack of which is seen as a consequence of the adolescents social background and the cause of the offense.On the other hand, the detention center staff interpret the adolescents' behavior in the institution as an index of their transformation for the life outside the institution.By establishing a continuity between "inside" and "outside", they make it possible to sustain the logic that the more submitted the adolescent is to the institution, more prepared he is to leave it.During the implementation of the institutional isolation, the main resource used to objectify these procedures are the reports produced by the staff and used as grounds for the judicial decision to end the detention.The reports are the product of the narrative construction of the fact of the adolescent's transformation as a consequence of the detention

Accountability · Criminology · Empathy · Isolation · Juvenile delinquency · Political science · Punishment (psychology · Rationality · Sociology · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth, Drugs, and Violence

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