Youth taking correctional measures restrictive to freedom: a revision based on master’s dissertations between 1990 and 2006

Abstract

Since the Minors’ Code till the releasement of the Statute of the Child and Adolescent (ECA), several changes have taken place, however, the minority and hygienist point of view, which objective is to separate from the society those who don’t fit in, institutionalizing children and youth, takes place till nowadays. From that perspective, this study aims to understand how the correctional measures restrictive to freedom contributes to the development of young people in Brazil, adopting a subversive posture to this logic that still drags on. The review of production about this theme goes from the creation of the Statute of the Child and Adolescent (1990) till 2006. The analyzed studies focus on several subjects as the culture on these institutions, based on physical and psychological violence, as the overvaluation of virility. It also shows up matters as the inability of reinsertion, pointing out the reality of even more exclusion and also the evaluation of those places by the youth, who think they’re like hell or like real prisons.