"Ninguém nasceu para semente" : violações de Direitos Humanos em narrativas de adolescentes e jovens privados de liberdade na Paraíba

Abstract

This dissertation seeks to understand, based on the narratives of seven adolescents and young people serving socio-educational deprivation measures in the city of João Pessoa, Paraíba, how the multiple forms of human rights violations are expressed throughout their lives. Therefore, the general objective of this research is to analyze human rights violations in the life stories of adolescents and young people deprived of liberty based on their narratives. The specific objectives are: to identify the main experiences of violence suffered by the research subjects before their deprivation of liberty; to investigate the relationship between rights violations and the commission of criminal acts; and to understand the methods of resistance to rights violations suffered before and after their deprivation of liberty. The research is qualitative in nature and is anchored in Thematic Content Analysis, as proposed by Minayo, using semi-structured interviews as a tool for actively listening to these voices often silenced by institutional structures and the selective gaze of the State. The choice to listen to these young people is not neutral: it stems from an ethical-political commitment to denouncing the structural and daily violations that precede, permeate, and follow the incarceration of these individuals, most of whom are Black, poor, peripheral, and from the Northeast. From a critical perspective, situated within historical-dialectical materialism and critical criminology, the research discusses how the logic of a colonialist and capitalist history in Brazil materializes in the bodies and subjectivities of these individuals, perpetuating a historical cycle of criminalization of poverty and racialization of violence. The results meet the objectives: All interviewees experienced numerous rights violations, materialized in violence of various types, including physical, symbolic, and institutional. The narratives demonstrate an intertwining of these violations and the attribution of criminal acts, when the State does not act as a guardian, merely acting with the hand of punishment. That socio-educational measures are extensions of the violence suffered prior to deprivation of liberty, further exacerbating it, now reconfigured by institutions. and finally, that even though the violence was everyday, these teenagers and young people invented and reinvented ways of resisting, together with the collective and affection.