Medidas socioeducativas: Cartas ao reinado do saber

Abstract

This study discusses the experience developed in interdisciplinary advocacy for adolescents in conflict with law in an academic extension program in the context of Brazilian public policy, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. The study methodology analyzes narratives about the work of the interdisciplinary advocacy team, aiming to discuss the experiences that show a critical look over the practices developed with adolescents who are under social-educational measures, prescribed due to misdemeanors. The conceptual analysis is guided by the dialogue with Michel Foucault's texts, especially the one entitled "La vie des hommes infâmes", mapping the relations of power and knowledge that regulate the institutional practices and social control of individuals. This analysis enables a reflection on the links that are established among the knowledge of law, psychology and pedagogy, producing practices that tend to regulate and prescribe the life of adolescents in the context of social-educational measures, from the perspective of judicialization of contemporary life.