A participação das famílias nos processos de reinserção dos adolescentes em conflito com a lei do Centro Educacional do Adolescente (CEA) – Sousa/PB.

Abstract

In the last decades we have seen in Brazilian society a significant increase of adolescents fulfilling socio-educational measures. According to the Statute of the Child and Adolescent, the application of socio-educational measures is directed to adolescents who practice acts of infraction and must be punished. The objective of this study is to analyze the limits and possibilities of family participation in the processes of reinsertion of adolescents in conflict with the law of the Adolescent Educational Center (CEA). We set out as secondary objectives: to draw a socioeconomic profile of the families of the CEA adolescents; as well as to draw a profile of the CEA adolescents and to analyze the role of the family in the reinsertion of these adolescents. We conducted a qualitative research and the instrument of data collection was a semistructured interview with a script of open and closed questions. The subjects of the research were the families of the CEA's internal adolescents. The data collected allowed us to understand two issues: the high number of adolescents in conflict with the law and the precarious public policies offered to this public; especially with regard to the application of socio-educational measures of deprivation of liberty. Thus, it is concluded that the way that socioeducational measures are being materialized has not been enough for the resocialization of these adolescents, needing more effective public policies for resocialization to happen, and also the participation of the family in this process as a support protection of these adolescents, providing community living.