O “lugar” no sistema socioeducativo: prismas para jovens de uma unidade de semiliberdade da Cidade de Recife-PE

Abstract

This research aims to investigate how young people serving socio-educational measures experience and attribute meanings to the place, and how experiences influence their identity reconstruction and their life projects. Thus, this is a case study that sought to understand how young people, from a semi-freedom unit in Recife-PE, perceive, feel and give meaning to the places where socio-educational measures are served. The choice of the theme emerges from the researcher's observations during the period in which she worked as a socio-educational agent at the semi-freedom unit Casem Harmonia. To this end, a qualitative research approach was used due to the complexity of the theme. The methodological procedures were: documentary analysis, based mainly on normative and institutional instruments such as ECA, SINASE, and the institution itself, highlighting internal regulations, reports and history of the unit; We also conducted searches and analyses of academic productions, which were essential, since they allow an approximation of the universe of the object investigated, carried out in articles and dissertations through the SCIELO database, on the Google Scholar website, the Capes Theses and Dissertations Catalog database and the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD); application of a semi-structured questionnaire made in Google Forms containing 21 questions that was applied to a group of 17 institutionalized adolescents, addressing questions about their perceptions, memories and feelings, in relation to the socio-educational unit; and carrying out an activity to produce mental maps, in which the participants graphically represented their relationships with the space. It was found in this research that the socio-educational students perceive the socio-educational unit as welcoming, a place of learning, and believe that the daily activities carried out in this space bring benefits to their lives outside of it. However, anger is a predominant feeling when they are

institutionalized. They feel happy and relieved when they are out of the socio- educational unit, demonstrating a strong intention to move away from that place, but

the relationships established by these individuals with their social context are still strong and inviting, making them susceptible to reoffending and new offenses.