The focus of this work is based on reflections produced during a piece of research done with young people who are in conflict with law, and socialized in deprived of freedom contexts. Its aim is to analyze representations that nine young individuals, from 18 to 21 years old, have about their situation, considering self narratives as privileged material for reflection. It tries to find subjectivities built during processes of stigmatization associated to ways trough risk routes, together with traces and the degree of identification each young individual has with his/her identities as: young people, students, prisoners, and others. It considers as scenery a socio-educative institution, located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The autobiography used as methodology in the building of data made use of the letter as a support for self narratives, through which young people produce narratives about everyday life and freedom privation.
self narrative; young people deprived of freedom; (auto)biographical narratives