Lar do garoto: último passo na trajetória da infração?(Etnografia de um estabelecimento educacional).

Abstract

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.