COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN BRAZIL AND ARGENTINA

IN POLICIES REGARDING THE RIGHTS OF ADOLESCENTS IN CONFLICT WITH THE LAW, IS IT POSSIBLE TO SAY THAT WE EXTERMINATED OUR YOUNG PEOPLE?

Abstract

Based on indicators of lethal violence against youth and social indicators that intersect gender, race, class, offences and schooling, the objective of this study was to reflect on how eugenics, biopolitics, sacrificial violence and punitiveness operate in public policies for adolescents who are socially and legally marginalized in Brazil and Argentina. The methodology consisted of statistical indicators, through a comparison between these nations. Indexes were brought by surveys to describe phenomena from a survey analysis perspective. The scenario of lethal violence in the context of youth and adolescents in conflict with the law was highlighted, comparing age group, gender, race, class, acts against the law, and access to schooling. Based on this parameter, reflections were made on the influence of body control, eugenics and punitiveness as operationalization of public policies permeated by the context of violence. The dialogical construction was carried out, primarily, through bibliographies that debated the normalization and control of bodies as a form of security; sacrificial violence as a social collective; bleaching and eugenics processes; and, criticism of human rights intertwining results brought by sociodemographic research on violence against youth, especially in the socio-educational context in Brazil and juvenile criminal justice in Argentina. From the data analysis, it was observed that sexist and racist management practices continue to occur in policies aimed at adolescents linked to these public policies in the respective federative entities. Not conclusively, but through reflexions, from a general perspective of criticism of the liberal Brazilian and Argentinean republican sociopolitical structure, throughout this essay we reflected on the question: adolescents outside of the law are subject to policies of which rights?

KEYWORDS: Rights policies. Socio-educational system. Juvenile criminal justice. Violence.