Medidas Socioeducativas, Ministério Público e Meio Aberto: uma etnografia de práticas extrajudiciais

Abstract

This doctoral dissertation has as its object the extrajudicial practices of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Rio de Janeiro’s State, specifically in a prosecution of collective rights of juvenile offenders. Its general objective is to comprehend the ministerial action regarding the promotion of social-educational municipal policies. For this, an ethnography of/with documents were performed, in/of events and in spaces of the Parquet, Judiciary and Public Defender’s Office. Although the execution of probation-like socio-educational measures is the responsibility of the Specialized Reference Centers in Social Work, since their normative typification that includes such measures under the Medium Complexity Special Social Protection, a narrative review attempted to highlight a gap in the human and social sciences literature of justice institutions, in relation to this subject. Thus, we emphasize that our original contribution to knowledge is precisely the realization of an ethnography in a juvenile prosecutor’s office of collective protection. Such an empirical-theoretical approach to probation-like socio-educational measures has enabled some main results to be reached: (i) comprehend the meetings, chaired by the juvenile tutelage’s office, as spaces aimed at political articulation, aligned with the Institution's strategic objectives at the state level; that is, the promotion of municipal social-educational policies; (ii) civil inquiries are not exclusively procedures aimed at judicial collective actions, but tools for dialogue during the administrative investigation carried out by the Parquet; (iii) the research found eminently moralistic action by the Judiciary and the 2nd Instance of Parquet in public events, while the juvenile tutelage’s office was largely aligned with the technical advice provided by the Operational Support Center for Children and Youth, of the Prosecutor’s Office itself, to substantiate its promotions. Finally, the ethnography of events can provide the reader with some interpretation of the circulation and sharing of ethics, moralities and political-ideological orientations in the conformation of what is called “social-education” in the analyzed municipal context. Affective-cognitive-moral gradients guide the "flows" of the "juvenile matter" in the Rio de Janeiro’s Capital, that is, they structure the practices, guiding behaviors and weaving narratives to justify (or not) institutional actions.