Justiça restaurativa e Sistema Socioeducativo no Município de Santarém/PA

Abstract

Restorative Justice, considered as a theoretical and methodological strategy that responds to a different logic from the traditional coercive-punitive model, has ideals that are in line with the Integral Protection Doctrine, the central axis of the Statute of the Child and the Adolescent, and with the guidelines of the SINASE (National System of Socio-Educational Assistance). This model of justice has been guiding practices in some parts of Brazil that see its educational character as more effective in confronting and preventing infraction in contrast to the conventional models of punishment, in prisons and correctional centres. Understanding the infractional act as a historical expression of the social question, the vulnerabilities to which adolescents are exposed and the subjective senses constructed in relation to the infractional conduct, the socio-educational measures and accountability are problematized. Based on a practice based on Restorative Justice in the city of Santarém, Pará, it was decided to explore the repercussions of Restorative Circles and Peace Circles on the lives of adolescents / young people in compliance with and / or out of socio-educational measures in this locality. The main objective of the research was to understand how the systematization of an intervention in the Socio-educational System of the municipality of Santarém, Pará, based on the prerogatives of Restorative Justice, is related to the processes of overcoming the conditions of vulnerability to commit further infraction by adolescents newly released from institutions and / or in progression of measurement. A qualitative research was carried out using participant observation, documentary analysis and semistructured interviews. Four subjects who had participated in the Circles were interviewed. As a result, it was observed that the intervention consisted of a welcoming and reliable space, allowing the adolescents to re-signify subjective meanings related to their respective histories of infractional conduct and sense of socio-educational measure, where they could know the history and feelings of the other participants of the Circle; regarding the reduction of vulnerability, however, it was not possible to affirm that the most significant transformations reported by the young people came directly from the intervention, despite the importance of this in their speeches. It is understood that intervention resources can be enhanced if they are planned based on the unique history of each adolescent; include relevant participants in their own history and promote new forms of participation and commitment. It is concluded that the Circles have the potential to promote new subjective configurations and are in line with the principles of SINASE, being a strategy consistent with the effective ideals of socio-education.