Abstract
The aim of this article is to analyze the social context of youth who fulfilled socio-educative measures of confinement. Therefore, qualitative research was conducted with ten young people who were in fulfillment with socio-educative measures of confinement in the state of Paraíba. It was used as research technique individual unstructured interviews, which were submitted to the Thematic Content Analysis. The results of the study showed that young people experience violations of rights related to the social context in their life trajectories, such as insertion in child labor, socioeconomic difficulties, violence, access to drugs and involvement with offenses due to the need for access to subsistence and consumption property. Thus, it is understood that the social context of young people before the fulfillment of socio-educative measures was permeated by the expressions of the social issue, arising from class conflict, centered on the exploitation of man by work for the capital development, and as a result of capitalist mode of production, configuring itself as a space that does not guarantee full conditions for the development of these young people.
Keywords:
socio-educational measures; social context; youth