“Para ver as meninas”: um estudo sobre as adolescentes em cumprimento de medida socioeducativa de internação na CASE/Salvador

Abstract

This research in general presents and analyzes the contributions of gender studies and aspects of the girls’ life in custody by the Community of Socio-Educational Service from Salvador, Bahia State, Brazil (Case/Salvador), the only institution in the entire State with the assignment to perform public service in implementing custodial measures to female adolescents. This study attempts to identify adolescents profile and present their perception on the execution of the socio-educational measure in Case/Salvador, as well as to understand the institution operation, regarding the implementation of that measure for adolescents. To this end, the feminist epistemology was adopted, in which there is interaction among objectivity and neutrality with emotion and passion, valorizing the interaction among researcher and research subjects. The empirical profile considers only females under internal socioeducational measures, as the most provided severe measure in Brazilian Statute of Children and Adolescents. The temporal profile covers the period from July to December 2009, and considers as research subjects all girls in fulfilling the custodial measures during the selected period, regardless of the entry date into the Unit. This study enabled to verify that the adolescents profile in detention at Case/Salvador is composed by girls from the lower classes, black, and poorly educated, and recidivist in law infraction. In the studied group, unlike other studies that contemplate the matter, it was found that just one girl committed a subsidiary infraction to the masculine criminal act. It was found that girls identify the socio-educational measure of detention as punitive and as temporary protection. In Case/Salvador, the detention execution is similar to provided measures in the validity period of the doctrine of irregular situation, with representative markings because of gender.