Violência juvenil: a forma como o Estado enfrenta a questão

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze the effectiveness of the State in the implementation of public policies to address the issue of juvenile violence, through the methodology of bibliographic and documentary research, with an investigative bias directed to the socio-educational process of adolescents in conflict with the law. This theme addresses the need to comply with the requirements of the Federal Constitution of 1988 and the Statute of the Child on the obligation of the State to apply through public policies the doctrine of integral protection for children and adolescents. To this end, reflections were made on the State's competence in the implementation of public policies aimed at the socio-education of adolescents and young people who comply with socio-educational measures of internment, as well as the improvement of the means for institutionalization of adolescents in the socio-educational process and the consequent rehabilitation of these actors. . The methodological approach used to help the interpretation of the diversified reflections on the concepts, theories and interpretations of the bibliographic and documentary contents used to evaluate the State's performance in promoting actions through public policies aimed at preventing and coping with the involvement of children and adolescents in acts. Infringements were qualitative research and descriptive content analysis. Thus, the following problem will be investigated: with the advent of the Statute of Children and Adolescents - ECA - and the adoption of necessary public policies, what is the State's performance in dealing with youth violence? To support the solution of the research problem, the following guiding questions were used: How did the State receive young people in conflict with the law at ECA? What is the duty of the state to re-educate children and adolescents in conflict with the law? How should the state approach a teenager who has committed an offense and how to re-educate him? The object of the research was built through the following general objective: to evaluate the State's performance in addressing youth violence, since the entry into force of Law No. 8.069 of 1990, in the socio-educational process of young people in conflict with the law, in the city. from Manaus.