RIBEIRO, L. R.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5087059472987542; RIBEIRO, Luziana Ramalho.
Resumo:
In Brazil there is a significant number of children and adolescents that for several
factors, as mainly, the poverty state they are running "risks". Most of those children
adolescents become homeless "street" in search for survival purposes. One of the strategies to
reach this aim practices of infracional acts which more dramatically articulates the luddical
appeal that marks the infant-juvenile condition - and the need to work - imposing to children
and poor adolescents. To these stereotypes subjects " are thrown " that, in the course of time
they become stigma "; which start to drive their own sel-representation as bearers of a "
deteriorated " identity. The society grants to the State the " treatment " for the rosaming
adolescents , which culminates with the adoption of the internment measure, whose inefficacy
is attested either from the specialists that discuss that problem, or from the own dynamics
operated in the institutions, where the adolescents develop several strategies of identity
manipulation to defraud the proposal of" intended ressocialization ".
This research is dedicated to reconstruct the path some adolescents take to the
construction of a " deviant career ", that begins in the streets and goes over the internment in
an Educational Establishment. The survey was developed at "Lar do Garoto Padre Otavio
Santos" - FUNDAC, in Lagoa Seca city, Paraiba.