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The Defense of Socio-Educational Internment: Feature of the Hygienist Principles1 1 Paper deriving from the primary author’s master’s thesis, under the advice of the secondary author, defended before the Graduate Program in Psychology at Universidade Estadual de Maringá and entitled The internment of adolescents in conflict with the law as the “only alternative”: Reissuing of hygienist ideas.

Defesa da Internação Socioeducativa: Aspecto do Ideário Higienista

La Defensa de la Internación Socio Educativa: Aspecto del Ideario Higienista

Youth violence and interventions to affront it are the focus of our scientific research. The aim of this study is evaluate the existence of the aspects contained in the justifications of hygienism judgments of teenagers who meet admission youth work. In this sense, we 21 sentences that determined the internment and its supporting materials which makes up the judicial process of teenagers that have entered the year 2010 in the Center of Socio-education II in Cascavel Paraná State. The results led us to conclude that nowadays, notwithstanding the Children and Adolescent, we are still, by judicial determination, removing the Teen Delinquency situation and closed the judicial term returning it to the same context from which it was withdrawn. Enshrined due differences in shape and time note this routing aspects of the ideology of mental hygiene and the minor doctrine.

juvenile delinquency; mental health; Children and Adolescent Code; correctional institutions


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