“…In the 1980s and 1990s, large residential institutions for children, of the type analyzed by Foucault (1987) in his famous book Discipline and Punish, were criticized and denounced by many researchers (Fonseca, 1987;Silva, 1997;Altoé, 1993;Guirado, 1986). These studies contributed to social knowledge by discussing the ways that isolation, the impact of mass culture, and the absence of family and community life damage the development of marginalized children and adolescents.…”