Violência Sexual Contra Crianças e Adolescentes: A Psicologia e o Estado Penal

Abstract

This article discusses some practices of Psychology related to public policies that address sexual violence against children and adolescents in the context of strengthening the penal state, the judicialization of life and control through Biopower. By means of a literature study focused on academic papers and documents with normative references on the subject, and on the situation after the 1990s, we sought to problematize certain practices of social control that took sex as target and that, through discourses and practices that propose the accountability of the perpetrator, end up violating the rights of children and adolescents. It focuses on some techniques of Psychology as listening to children within a protective network that generate the production of evidence and allowances for legal decision. The conclusion is that psy-knowledge has been used to equip practices in the service of judicialization of life and that, instead of serving those who have had their rights violated - children and teenagers -, it is punitive and based on control.