Violation of rights in the socio-educational process of adolescents in freedom's deprivation
Socio-educational System, Deprivation of freedom, Human Rights, Adolescents.
The present study had as its goal the analysis of the main human rights violations suffered by teenagers
during correctional measures of deprivation of liberty, in the city of João Pessoa, capital of the Paraíba
state. For that, the data construction was gathered in two moments: the analysis of reports of visits to
socio-educational centers, elaborated by the Hu-man Rights Commissions of the State of Paraíba and the
realization of interviews with the teenagers deprived of their liberty. The documental research intended to
characterize the measure studied, as well as identify the main rights violations committed against the teen-
agers that are serving it. The second moment intended to identify the continuities and in-stabilities of
what was verified in the process of documental research. The data obtained in the two stages of research
was confronted with the Child and Teenager Statute, as well as postulates of Critical Criminology,
theorical reference used viewing to analyze the rights violations under the operation of the Penal State,
the Criminalization of Poverty and Penal Selectivity. The results confirmed the existence of diverse
violations of rights suffered, as well as a resemblance between the measure studied and the Brazilian
Penal System; a measure of socio-educative compliance, with predominance of punitive nature:
overcrowd-ing, mistreatment that extend to the families, beating, deaths, horrible conditions of infra-
structure, scholarization problems, lack of professionalizing courses and cultural workshops to everyone;
in this context, it was identified that these human rights violations present a structural aspect in the
deprivation of liberty measure; as well as determined a strong relation between the human rights
violations and the forms of resistance builted by these oppressed groups; also were perceived possibilities
of subtle changes in the lives of the teenagers, by the form of human rights guarantees. At last, it has been
made necessary the comprehension of the human rights guarantees as an important tactic to build a new
society, understanding its limits.