Dificuldades e possibilidades na implantação de medidas socioeducativas em regiões com indicadores de desenvolvimento diferenciados.

Abstract

This dissertation brings reflections about the applications of Social Educative Measures – Law 8.069/90- Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente ECA– in two counties with different socio-demographic characteristics: Santa Cruz do Sul and Cachoeira do Sul. The methodology used to do this research was the comparative case study. In Santa Cruz do Sul the research included 11 adolescents who were being submitted to social educative measure, 14 municipal agents and 96 files on the period of January/2003 to July/2004. In Cachoeira do Sul the research was based on 27 legal process in the Fórum, refered the period of January/2002 to september/2004. To accomplish our goals we applied closed face to face questionnaires, we participated of meetings, we did contacts with institutionals agentes who participate, in these two counties, in the process of application of those measures and give assistance to the adolescents who received those measures. One fundamental difference is that in Santa Cruz do Sul operates a municipalized projet to give assistance to the adolescents who are in conflict with the law, called PANSEMA. On the other hand in Cachoeira do Sul this service is made through the Fórum of the city and there are no application of the ECA. On the regional development process, the public policies related to the inclusion of those adolescents in conflict with the law have a highlighted place. We believe that there are several determinant factors to explain the lack of ECA application in Cachoeira do Sul county. We emphasized on this work the civil society participation along with the emphasis on adolescence and childhood in the public agenda and the articulation of public services in format of networks as possible explanations for that lack.