Juventude, escola e atos infracionais : experiências e histórias de vida dos jovens em conflitos com a lei

Abstract

This course work analyzed the social representations that youths sentenced to fulfill socio-educational measures, in a semi-liberty regime, developed with two opposing fields of education and socialization in modern societies: that of socially legal, legitimate and formal knowledge of the School and the of socially illegal and illegitimate knowledge of transgression and violent conduct. In this sense, maintaining a dialogue with both the Sociology of Youth and the Sociology of Violence, the purpose was to trace and analyze the school and criminal experiences of these young people, as well as to verify if and how, a relationship of interdependence can be revealed between the social experiences of school failure/abandonment and the experiences of approximation / identification to practices and / or antisocial groups. Thus, to achieve these objectives, some methodological procedures were required, such as the conduct of semi structured interviews based on the inventories of knowledge methodology; from this the attempt to reconstruct the life history of the young inmates and, finally, the analysis and interpretation of these data through the content analysis methodology. All this was necessary for the understanding of our empirical universe, as well as the elaboration of the preliminary results of the present work.