Strength to go up, courage on the way down: A study about girls’ resistance to the socio-educational measure of incarceration in Brazil

Abstract

This study refers to getting to know the conditions in which the girls experience the social-educational measure of incarceration in order to expose the oppressions suffered by them, in the context of an institution as Fundação CASA (Adolescent Social-Educational Attendance Center), depicting how they inhabit CASA Chiquinha Gonzaga as to identify the resistance tactics of the female adolescents who are deprived of freedom. The insertion as a professional constituted as a research field where observations were made from the time spent together added to interviews with two teenage girls who have already finished the detention measure. The research draws its inspiration from the participatory action research methodology and also from the feminist methodology and sets off from theoretical frameworks such as critical criminology, the intersectionality of black feminism and affectivity as source of knowledge. The resistance tactics were debated through the axes of musicalities, materialities and affections around.