O Serviço Social no Sistema Penitenciário: considerações acerca do trabalho desenvolvido em programas e projetos para a “ressocialização”

Abstract

The present work has as central question the professional practice of the social worker, according to the Ethical-Political Project, in programs and projects aimed at the “resocialization” of prisoners and graduates of the penitentiary system in the city of Rio de Janeiro. With this in mind, we focus on the study of the theme based on the following questions: to understand if, for social workers, work activities or professional training, aimed at prisoners and graduates of the penitentiary system can be considered as “resocialization”; what is the conception and consequent social direction of the professional work of the social workers who develop these actions and, finally, the challenges and possibilities of the social worker's performance in these programs and projects. We emphasize that the methodology used was based on the collection of data in primary sources (interviews with semi-structured script) and secondary sources (review of existing bibliography about prison, social service, criminology, among others). Moreover, the analysis of the interviews and the development of the chapters is based on historical-dialectical materialism, since phenomena can not be captured in isolation and it is the dialectic that gives us the basis for a dynamic and total interpretation of reality. Thus, we find throughout the study that the term “resocialization” is used interchangeably by social workers who develop actions with persons deprived of their liberty or who have left, ratifying, albeit unintentionally, the perverse discourse of the penal system and the ruling classes. offense is individual or psychosocial, and that the incentive to training and insertion in the labor market can be considered as a way out of non-recurrence.