Narrativas do saber, práticas de poder: uma análise antropológica dos discursos e práticas de internação de jovens mulheres em Alagoas

Abstract

The present study aims to problematize the discourses and practices of hospitalization of adolescents in the state of Alagoas. The research was carried out at the Female Internment Unit - UIF, located in Maceió, between January and May 2016, and records of internal adolescents were analyzed at the time. Based on the investigation of the sentences, interlocutory decisions, representations of the Public Ministry and opinions issued by the unit's technical team, it was sought to understand which arguments of knowing are used for decreasing hospitalization. For the construction of the work, we start from the analysis of the discursive formations of Foucaultian perspective. For the author, the comprehension of the discourses must consider the historical moment in which they were produced, as also the discourses need to be understood as political events, because in its essence are present struggles, forces and desires that dynamize the society. To better explain the problem, we performed a historical analysis of the Brazilian female prison system, and the contextualization of institutionalization in the country. After the explanation, it is observed that the discourses that justify the imprisonment of the young women use the arguments of socioeducation and recovery of the young people of the world of crime, reinforcing strategies of segregation and control of those that have deviant conduct.