Representações sociais de ato infracional e medida sócio-educativa de adolescentes em liberdade assistida

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Coelho, Bianca Izoton
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo; BR; Mestrado em Psicologia; UFES; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia
• Palavras-chave em Português: Teenager in conflict with the law; Social representations; Infraction; Social-educational measures; Adolescentes em conflito com a lei; Representações Sociais; Ato infracional; Medidas sócio-educativas; Resiliência (Traço da personalidade); Psicologia; 159.9
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/6684

The theme of the adolescent in conflict with the law has showed the interest of researchers and professionals working in the sphere of social policy. In order to contribute to this area, this research aimed to analyze the social representations of socio-educational measures and infraction in the view of adolescents in conflict with the law. The Theory of Social Representation was used as the theoretical and methodological contribuitions. Participated in the research, forty-six adolescents, who were serving for more than three months, the measure of Probation in Vitória-ES. Data were collected through interviews with a semi-structured screenplay. The data collection was, at first, on the technique of free evocation by the terms infraction and socio-educational measures and a second time on matters relating to the same broad terms, but performed with nine adolescents. We used the software EVOC to analyse the evocations issued and the Content Analysis for the extensive examination of issues. The results showed the following socio-economic status of adolescents: low family income, low educational level, place of residence precarious, African ethnicity predominant and distance from the religion. Social representations of infraction related to the types of infractions and the causes and consequences. Furthermore, we observed that the types of infractions most committed were theft and drug traffic, the motivations for the commission of the infraction were money and bad influences, some reported no recurrence in the violation, while others would relapse in deprivation financial or personal disagreements. The social representations of socio-educational measures were related to positive actions that, besides learning there was the possibility of change. Furthermore, adolescents identified the importance of family to commit the measure and said the measure contributes positively to their lives.