“FILHAS DO MENOR CHUVISCO”: A STUDY ON PARAIBA ADOLESCENTS CRIMINALIZED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Criminology.Gender.Marxism.Socio-educational measure.
This study analyzes the criminalization processes, that precede the realization of the socio- educational measure, which affect adolescents apprehended for drug trafficking, in the capital of Paraíba. More specifically, it identifies the main socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of adolescents involved in offenses related to drug trafficking in the capital of Paraíba; investigates the main particularities of the exercise of penal control over these adolescents from Paraíba; discusses the perspective of drug trafficking as a form of exploitation of child labor, analyzing its effects on the life trajectories of adolescents; and, finally, analyzes the articulations between the information from the judgment processes, the investigation of an infraction, of adolescents from Paraíba and the main productions and theories evolved in the encounter between marxism, feminism and criminology, seeking to understand the social dynamics related to the involvement of adolescents in drug trafficking. To achieve these goals, we conducted a literature review on the historical relationship between crime and women/adolescents, as well as on drug trafficking and prohibition. Then, we analyze the processes of infractions committed by adolescents throughout the state of Paraíba, between 2010 and 2020. The data were categorized and analyzed based on the understandings produced in the encounters and disagreements between feminism and Marxism, as well as with the main foundations of critical criminology based on historical materialism. With this study, we hope to deepen our understanding of the control that is directed at these adolescents and provide elements to support the transformation of this reality, instrumentalizing a critical action by professionals in the context of adolescence and youth.