Resumo:
This study aims to analyze the importance of the family in complying with the socioeducational
confinement measure at the “Socio-Educational Community (CASE)
SALVADOR”. While committing serious legal violations, teenagers may be punished
with a freedom deprivation action: a confinement that has no predetermined
deadline, but which also can’t exceed a period of three years. Considering there is no
clear legal criteria on determining how long the intern should stay confined, coupled
with the fact that adolescence reflects a transitional period between child and
adulthood, and that teenagers are still under maturity development, parental
engagement is crucial to these youngsters, since family support - besides being
humans’ first social group - is also the source of identity framing for those who are
still under development and need affection. This study seeks to better understand
how family engagement impacts the resignification of the committed act by part of the
teenagers and in the execution of the confinement measure.
