Policy for LGBT Adolescents in Minas Gerais’ Socio-educational System? Notes on an Ongoing Dispute

• Autor(a) principal: de Almeida, Eduarda Lorena
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Givisiez, Fernanda Machado, Duarte, Thais Lemos, Gomes, Marcella Furtado de Magalhães
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Dilemas : Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/dilemas/article/view/48285
• topic: sistema socioeducativo; políticas de igualdade de gênero; discricionariedade; políticas públicas; direitos humanos; socio-educational system; gender equality policies; discretion; public policies; human rights

This paper analyzes the construction of the state policy for care and treatment of LGBT people in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and its application in the socio-educational units in the state. The research was based on documental analysis and semi-structured interviews. We found that the state’s socio-educational system seeks to implement institutional standards produced by the Statute of the Child and Adolescent (ECA) and the National System for Socio-Educational Care (Sinase). Nonetheless, the values that it intends to follow seem disconnected from the practices historically established in the internment units, prevailing punitive perspectives. Formally, the socio-educational system in Minas Gerais follows gender policies, but these are far from the routines developed in the units.