A MEDIDA DE SEMILIBERDADE: monitorar, controlar e punir

• Main Authors: Marco Antonio Arantes, Fabiane Taborda
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Maranhão 2019-01-01
• Series: Revista de Políticas Públicas
• Subjects: adolescents; public policies; semi; liberty; disciplinary power
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=321160569003

This article presents considerations about the functioning of the Semi-liberty socio-educational measure, as part of a structured proposition based on national guidelines, in view of problematizations about Michel Foucault’s disciplinary power and Gilles Deleuze’s control society. The semi-liberty measure consists in an adolescent’s staying in a house for a period from six months to three years, under a professional team’s orientation and supervision. The discussions demonstrate that the strategies undertaken for the measure execution present a conception of public policy aligned with new conceptions and values in the control society, taking into account the disciplinary society practices. The practices, established in Semi-liberty, work like a laboratory by introducing adolescents to democratic flows, configuring a sort of social juggling.