O conceito de responsabilização no sistema socioeducativo: entre a punição e a educação

Abstract

This dissertation addresses, through bibliographic research, the concept of accountability in socio-educational care, considering the legal frameworks – especially the ECA (Statute of the Child and Adolescent) and SINASE (National System of Socio-Educational Assistance). To this end, it analyzed current forms of social control and the legal-punitive system from the perspective of neoliberal capitalism, highlighting the persistence of the criminalization of poverty and penal selectivity. In this neoliberal context, the internalization of values and behaviors under neoliberal reason was examined. The research was conducted using the materialist dialectical method in dialogue with Lukács, based on the categories of ethics, morality, and law, grounded, therefore, in the ontology of social being. This is a qualitative and exploratory research. With this objective, the trajectory of laws and changes in conception in the sphere of adolescents who commit offenses was investigated. It was observed that socio-educational accountability is analyzed within the context of the sanctioning and pedagogical character of socio-educational measures, their punitive and educational aspects as mechanisms of social control, without disregarding the advances achieved in legislation and institutional practices. The different dimensions of the concept of accountability – legal, educational, subjective – and the different meanings attributed to the concept of accountability in socio-educational policy were identified, with the persistence of punitive aspects. Based on the multiple dimensions of the concept, in addition to the preservation of punitive aspects in the accountability process, the individual perspective was identified as a relevant trend in this process, linked to neoliberal rationality, and present in the SINASE (National System of Socio-Educational Assistance), in socio-educational practices, and in professional interventions.