Abstract

COSCIONI, Vinicius; PINTO MARQUES, Mauricio; ROSA, Edinete Maria  and  KOLLER, Sílvia Helena. Life projects of adolescents under social educative measure of confinement. Cienc. Psicol. [online]. 2018, vol.12, n.1, pp.109-120. ISSN 1688-4094.  https://doi.org/10.22235/cp.v12i1.1601.

This research characterizes life projects of adolescents deprived of their liberty due to the commission of offenses. It is a multiple case study conducted through four focus groups, which had twenty-five adolescents as participants. The adolescents were aged between 15 and 19 years old and were confined in juvenile detention centers in the Metropolitan Regions of Espírito Santo and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Data were treated by thematic analysis and systematic procedures were used for differentiating the cases. There were two ways of conceiving future among participants: 1) with life projects associated to crime, which included a clear sense of action for the future; and 2) with future aspirations related to education, family, and work, but without a sense of action by which one attempted to achieve such aspirations. The results suggest that the social educative system is infective in promoting healthy life projects

Keywords : life projects; adolescents in conflict with the law; social educative measures; deprivation of freedom; antisocial behavior.

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