Cartografando práticas e percursos na tentativa de implantação da visita íntima no sistema socioeducativo do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This thesis analyzes how the proposition of implementing conjugal visits in juvenile detention centers, which is already recommended by a 2012 law that creates Brazil’s socioeducational system, activates several devices in the socioeducational system. We used cartography as a method to provoke the issues that permeate the debate about sexual rights and reproductive rights of teenagers who are restricted or deprived of their freedom. The research heard professionals, adolescents and family members, individually and in groups, in Rio de Janeiro and other states. We verified that conjugal visits, sexuality and gender trigger alert mechanisms that translate into concern and fear on the part of the socioeducational institution. In this field, security is a notion that marks subjectivities deeply, and these subjetctivities are densely territorialized by this notion, which keeps sexuality and whatever relates to it silenced or invisibilized. As analytical tools, we used the concepts of “analyzer” and “happening” to think about conjugal visits. As “analyzer”, we understand that which highlights what cannot appear at a given moment. As for “happening”, we understand it as that which generates tensions when the unexpected appears. Faced with the obstacles and difficulties of implementing a sexual and reproductive rights’ policy for adolescents and young people deprived of their liberty, we defend sexuality as a human right and as something that should be part of the daily life in the socioeducational institution. Although conjugal visit have not been fully implemented in Brazil’s socioeducational system, we have found different initiatives, academic researches, social and human rights movements outside and inside these institutions arguing that these teenagers have the right to exercize their sexuality, to experience pleasure, to family conviviality, to strengthening bonds with their partners, to access health promotion and care and to be free of any form of violence, may it be institutional, sexual, gender violence or others. Our understanding is that conjugal visits for adolescents in juvenile detention centers is an important part of a public policy committed to sexual and reproductive rights.