Registros de una libertad vigilada. La construcción documental de la adolescencia infractora en las medidas socioeducativas en medio abierto

Abstract

I propose to discuss assistance practices to adolescent offenders who comply socio-educative measures within an open regime in a peripheral region of Sao Paulo. In this study, I describe the power relations and knowledges that set fluid definitions of adolescence and resocialization in that specific context. Therefore, I stand with the responsible team for serving the juvenile and informing the judges, functioning as bridges between the adolescents and the judiciary. The elaboration of individualized assistance plans is demanded from this team, aiming to avoid that the passage of juveniles through the socio-educational system massify them as the penitentiary would. The documents produced in the center manifest the tenuous equilibrium between massification and individualization. When scaffolding assistance, these papers also produce circumstantial statements that define adolescents, their rights and their obligations.