A aplicabilidade da medida socioeducativa de Liberdade Assistida no Centro de Referência Especializada de Assistência Social (Creas) em Maceió/Al

Abstract

The present study deals with the socio-educational measure of Assisted Liberty (LA) and how it develops in the city of Maceió. It aims to analyze the implementation of the LA measure carried out by the Specialized Reference Center for Social Assistance (CREAS). Bibliographic and documentary research was used as a methodological procedure, so that a bibliographic research was used from authors such as Cantini (2008), Lorenzi (2007), Duriguetto (2017), Medeiros (2007) among others. Documentary analysis was also used, whose source was the empirical material that constitutes the research corpus, namely: the Federal Constitution of 1988, Law No. of children and adolescents in Brazil and provide for their full protection, Law 12,594/12, which provides for the implementation of measures aimed at adolescents who commit an infraction and others. It deals, initially, with the process of building policies aimed at children and adolescents in Brazil, discussing the treatment given to them since the first legislation aimed at the segment, passing through the Melo Mattos Code to the Federal Constitution of 1988. Several discussions about the treatment provided to children and youth, reveals that these have fostered the creation of specific legislation to guarantee the rights of children and adolescents, the ECA, giving visibility to its main innovations. Still, an approach is made about the criminalization of poverty in a scenario in which the Criminal State advances. Furthermore, it reveals the development of the process of implementation of socio-educational measures, with emphasis on Assisted Freedom developed by CREAS and ensured by the National Policy for Social Assistance (PNAS). Finally, it refers to the job of the social worker with adolescents in compliance with socio-educational measures, addressing the importance of having professionals committed to the Code of Ethics and who aim to effectively enable the rights of children and adolescents by carrying out a work in a network and the confrontation of expressions of the social question.