Representações sociais da reabilitação social: o legal e o real como ele é visto

• Autor(a) principal: Alves, Adriana Torres
• Data de Publicação: 2005
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/8687
• topic: Representações sociais; Reabilitação social; Apenados homicidas; Social representation; Social rehabilitation; Homicide convicts; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

There are many discussions about criminal practices and their punishments. In special crimes against life have aroused a series of debates on prison matters, human rights and social rehabilitation. Data from IBGE (2004) - a Brazilian statistics institute - show an Increase of 130% in the last 20 years in homicide crimes, it means in numbers around 600 thousand people that are victims of this type of violence. Theoretically the punishments that restrict liberty are intended to rehabilitate the criminals, which many times do not occur, once the prison chaos and stigma against the convicts affect their social rehabilitation (Lima, 1993). This study is based on the Theory of Social Representations, Where it is possible to realize the confrontation of what is real and legal. Thus, the objective of this study is to know the social representations of homicide convicts that are kept in prison, in the maximum security prison Silvio Porto (group 1), and homicide convicts that are placed on probation, linked to the court of penal executions In João Pessoa - Pb (group 2), in relation to social rehabilitation, as well as to compare the representations of the two groups. Male homicide convicts that work in prison participated in this study and they were selected through a documental research in the prison files. In relation to homicide convicts in probation, they were selected through the help of the employees of the court of penal executions and they participated of their own free will. Through semi-structured interviews, the convicts were asked to talk about their representations related to social rehabilitation. The results were determined through the analysis of the content. The sample is constituted of 39 homicide convicts, where 17 convicts belong to group one and 22 to group 2. The analysis was made according to the content analysis method proposed by Bardin (1977) and the acquired results through the interviews show the appearance of three empirical categories: social rehabilitation conception, existences of social rehabilitation and social exclusion/inclusion. The conceptions of social rehabilitation were represented involving the conception of social behavior and (re)construction of life project In relation to the experiences of social rehabilitation, there were the ones related to punishment/learning; similarities/differences in prison; positive and negative practices to group 1, negative practices to group 2 and work as a resocializing factor. The category exclusion/social insertion was seen through the family and its importance to the process of social rehabilitation; through social values related to social life; to religious beliefs and to discrimination/opportunity which was verified only In group 2. Before these results, it is believed that the objectives of this investigation were reached and that It is possible to develop an intervention plan directed to institutions that propose social rehabilitation.