Saber-poder profissional do assistente social no campo sociojurídico

Abstract

This work consists in the study about the work singularities of the social assistant in the Social-Juridical Field, specifically identifying the main points that indicate the presence and the relationship of the knowlegde-power in the professional actuation on that field. The Social-Juridical Field composition is recent, since the Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988. However, the Social Work has developed its activities since the years 1940/1950 the then called, the Juvenile Court of Sao Paulo and later in Family Courts. So that, to develop the research in question, we chose two institutions in which Social Work, a long time ago, carries out its actions: Justice for Children and Youth and Family Court. Nowadays, with the advent of the Brazilian Constitution of 1988, the ECA and other laws that covered a range of human and social rights as well as changes in social reality and the adoption of neoliberal policies by the Brazilian government to reduce social spending and hence public policy, triggered an explosion of social conflicts, which are put to the Judiciary. In this sense, the social worker has been ordered by the authorities with their legal knowledge-power to act on the social conflicts that have been accumulating since the conflicting parties trigger the judiciary to resolve such conflicts. Those are situations of violation of human and social rights, sometimes with the State itself as a transgressor. In this investigation the methodological procedures used were: an exploratory research performed with the available literature with different authors that address the subject. A data reading about the Social Service on the Social-Juridical Field recorded on the inspection visit forms of CRESS 16ª Region-AL (during 2005-2007), in a sample of ten institutions. An empirical research through depoiments collected in interviews in 2006 with judges of the Courts for Children and Youth and Family about the performance of Social Work in these rods.