Adolescents in Conflict with the Laws in São Paulo - Brazil: the Social Practices and Their Educational Processes

Abstract

This paper aims to present the specific educational services to adolescents who are under socio deprivation of liberty in the State of São Paulo-Brazil. The criminal liability of the young is by application of educational measures called that vary according to the severity of the offense and the ability of the young to fulfill it, with an education a right secured to this young man, regardless of offense. The qualitative research sought social practices of young offenders reported in theses and dissertations on specific topic, and the technique of classroom observation and informal conversations with the teachers, the period between 2008 and 2013 was also used. As a result, we found that formal education for these teens run as a space conquest of rights that were previously denied. Right attention, respect, acceptance, love, because the faculty deal with these teens with a look that recognizes them as subjects of rights and, in addition, comprise the peculiar developmental condition that pervade, understanding the anguish, doubts and behaviors sometimes inadequate.